Vocab 1
This is a cultural movement started by French-speaking black intellectuals emphasizing African heritage, identity, and values, and rejecting European ideals
What is Negritude
Nonviolent refusal to obey certain laws or commands of the government.
What is Civil Disobedience
This person had a dream...
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Movement sparked by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott
This is a social movement dedicated to fight systemic oppression, racism, and police brutality.
What is Black Lives Matter movement
The systemic, often legal, separation of people into different residential areas, facilities, and institutions based on race
What is segregation
This is a political slogan associated with ideologies that aim to achieve self-determination for black people.
What is Black Power
This person wanted us all to go Back to Africa
Who is Marcus Garvey
This landmark case allowed for black and white students to attend the same school
What is Brown vs Board of Education
This is a global ideology unifying people of African decent and advocating for political, social, and economic improvement and emphasizes the shared history between Africans and Black peoples within the diaspora.
What is Pan-Africanism
The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society
What is assimilation
This was a popular form of entertainment that displayed the black body as a spectacle; an object of ridicule with exaggerated features and mannerisms that communicated innate inferiority
What is minstrelsy
This person's ideals resonated deeply with activists seeking to empower black communities and his assassination significantly inspired the Black Power Movement.
Who is Malcolm X
Where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous "I have a Dream.." speech
What is the March on Washington
This is the period during the 50s and 60s where boycotting, sit-ins, and other nonviolent methods were used to advocate for social change.
What is the Civil Rights movement
Political, social, and economic ideology advocating black nationalism, racial pride, and the establishment of self-governing African nations.
What is Garveyism
This is an ideal promoting the uplifting and community of black people while striving for power economically and socially; disagreed with assimilation and promoted Black identity.
What is Black Nationalism
This person called for an independent black homeland on US soil.
Who is Amiri Baraka
Student activists from CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) rode interstate busses in to the segregated South as a form of protest.
What is Freedom Rides
This movement supported ideals such as Black nationalism and was against a nonviolent approach to social justice.
What is the Black Power Movement
This is an unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group of people.
What is chauvinism
The process of ending legal and social segregation, combining racial or marginalized groups into a unified society with equal access to public spaces, schools, and opportunities
What is integration
This person coined the "Black Power!" slogan
Who is Stokely Carmichael
Sparked by students a part of SNCC in Greensboro, NC who refused to leave a segregated lunch counter
What are the Sit-In movements
This is a period between the 60s and 70s where black art was used as a political vehicle to serve the black community and focused on black pride and liberation.
What is the Black Arts Movement