Special Order #15
what is the date and where is it located?
January 18th, 1865
South Carolina
Public murder.
What period was Reconstruction? What was it?
1865-1877
Social revolution, reunited families, land, citizenship, political party change (Republicans)
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
Created the Niagara Movement
Editor of Crisis
What was the Great Migration?
Black people from the south moved to the north in 1890-1915.
What was the Civil Rights Act 1866?
Defined U.S. citizenship for the first time that affirmed all citizens were equally protected by the laws.
Who said the Atlanta Compromise Speech in 1895?
Booker T. Washington
* Demonstrate your worth/show them you have moral courage
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) argument?
Separate but equal
14th Amendment wasn't violated
What was Souls of Black Folk?
Book written by Dubois
What is Red Summer?
Violent racial riots against blacks across the US.
*Memphis, Chicago, New York, Texas
Presidential Reconstructed
Directed by Andrew Johnson discussing that all white slave holders can come back.
What is Jim Crow?
Racially separated laws.
*Separate accommodations
What was the Social Darwinism?
Survival of the fittest
Natural selection
African Americans were at the lowest of surviving at being successful.
What is the silent march?
Took place in 1917
Protest of east St. Louis riots
What was the New Negro?
Culture/Music
1920s and 1930s
What is an Accommodationist?
A person who seeks compromise with an opposing point of view.
*Booker T. Washington
Who led the NACW, what was it about, and when was it formed?
Margaret Murray Washington
Promoting uplift of African American women
July 1896
What was Booker T. Washington's autobiography? Who is Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
Accomodationist who founded Tuskegee in 1881
What did Marcus Garvey want to do?
Improve community
Build African American churches
When was the NAACP formed?
1909
What is the white man's burden?
Justified imperialism and colonialism
Who founded the UNIA?
Marcus Garvey