Week 4
What was the one northern state that still had a significant slave population by the 1830s?
New Jersey
While many labor unions and movements still segregated themselves along racial lines, what famous early labor movement openly welcomed African American men?
The Knights of Labor
While many African Americans migrated to cities in what became known as the Great Migration, how much of the African American community remained in the south for the following several decades?
6,000,000
This activist fought an anti-lynching crusade
Ida B. Wells
These were African American soldiers deployed out west
Buffalo Soldiers
While confederate states were already defecting from the Union, what was Lincoln's last ditch effort to prevent a Civil War?
He promised he would allow slavery, but only where it existed
The Supreme Court case Plessey vs Ferguson famously enshrined the policy of "Separate but Equal" within American society. What was the court case initially over?
Racially segregated train cars
Despite fighting in a segregated military, the Hell Fighters, an all black American regiment, served valiantly, receiving what military honor?
The French Cross of War
This activist forced the government to desegregate the defense sector
A. Phillip Randolf
These were a group of highly decorated African American soldiers in World War I
Hell Fighters
Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
All slaves in Confederate states still at war with the Union
What became one of the most important institution to the African American community during Reconstruction after the family?
Their own independent churches
Despite the Red Scare and a rejection by the majority of the African American community, what ideology was explored by elements of the Harlem Renaissance and activists like A. Phillip Randolph?
Communism
This activist encouraged Pan-Africanism
Marcus Garvey
These figures were African American settlers who tried to create new communities out west
Exodusters
What party formed specifically out of anti-immigration and pro-racist ideology?
The Know Nothing Party
Despite the efforts of government organizations like the Freedmen's Bureau and acts like the Southern Homestead Act, what precious commodity remained out of reach for many freedmen during Reconstruction and beyond?
Land
What did Executive Order 8802 do?
It desegregated the Defense industries
This activist was a prominent publisher who printed many narratives by Freedmen and women
William Lloyd Garrison
These were African American journalists who reported on racism at home and abroad
Soldiers without Swords
What was the first black newspaper in the United States
Freedom's Journal
Which of the following was a prominent early HBCU that focused on a liberal arts education, rather than a technical education, and famously funded itself via a widely renowed student chorus group that played for the President of the United States and the Queen of England?
Fisk University
While the GI Bill was written in a way that it didn't discriminate against veterans based on their race, how did African Americans servicemen get frequently deprived of their benefits?
The military often gave them discharges that stripped them of their GI benefits
This activist encourage the creation of Black History Month
Carter G. Woodson
These were slaves that were taken in by the Union military and given shelter
Contraband