Early Life
This famous New York City neighborhood where Vicki Garvin grew up was the cultural and political capital of Black America in the 1920s and 30s.
What is Harlem, New York City.
What African Country did Garvin travel to in 1960?
What is "Nigeria"
This organization was founded in 1951 by Black women fighting racial injustice, political repression, and inequality.
What is the Sojourners for Truth and Justice?
What was one of the main driving force of the Civil Rights Movement?
What is "racial segregation, discrimination, voting rights, and political participation"
Vicki Garvin joined this political party in 1947, calling her membership a "key development" in her life as an activist
What is the "Communist Party."
Garvin’s early political awareness was shaped by this severe global economic collapse of the 1930s that caused mass unemployment.
What is The Great Depression
When describing her political identity while living in China, Garvin called herself a Pan-Africanist and what kind of internationalist?
What is a "proletarian, working-class internationalist"?
This activist helped organize the Sojourners for Truth and Justice and was a major labor and Communist activist.
Who is Louise Thompson Patterson?
Women organized
1. boycotts 2. voter-registration drives
3.sit-ins 4.community campaigns 5.All of the above
What is "All of the above."
Garvin served as a national research director for this left-leaning CIO union before it was expelled in 1949.
What is the UOPWA (United Office in Professional Workers of America)
The mass movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern industrial cities in the early 20th century.
What is The Great Migration
Who did Garvin help organize and welcome when he visited Ghana?
What is "Malcolm X"
This activist joined the Communist Party in 1947 and later became involved in Black liberation and international solidarity in Ghana and China.
Who is Vicki Garvin?
At the start of the 1950s, Garvin helped launch which of the following documents for the city of Harlem?
1. Newspaper 2. Magazine
3. Advertisement 4. Journal Entry
What is "Newspaper"
In 1950, Garvin joined activist Paul Robeson as a founding board member of this radical newspaper?
What is Freedom?
Harlem's famous Abyssinian Baptist Church was led during the 1930s by this charismatic pastor and future congressman.
Who is Adam Clayton Powell Jr.?
In August 1963, while living in Ghana, Garvin co-organized a protest picketing the embassy of this nation in connection with the March on Washington
What is the United States?
This organization focused on organizing Black workers and advocated for Black women’s equality in the workplace.
What is the National Negro Labor Council (NNLC)?
What year did the main Civil Rights Movements take place?
What is "1940-1960"
After McCarthy-era repression shut her out of union jobs in the mid-1950s, Garvin went back to NYU to study this subject?
What is Marketing
Prestigious Massachusetts women's college where progressive students studied economics and Marxism in the late 1930s.
What is Smith College?
What did Garvin's travels help her connect with the Black freedom struggle in the US?
What is "International liberation movements"
This Cold War-era political climate led to increased surveillance and repression of many left-wing and Communist activists.
What is McCarthyism/Cold War anti-Communism?
Black freedom movements primarily addressed
Hint: there is 4
What is "race + class + gender + global inequality"
Before helping found the NNLC, Garvin served as executive secretary for the Manhattan Council of this major 1940s Black civil rights organization?
What is the National Negro Congress (NNC)?