Antebellum Era
A network of abolitionists used to help slaves escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Abducted, tortured, and lynched for allegedly flirting with a white woman
Who is Emmett Till?
A cultural revolution that took place in New York
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Sit-ins were used as a form of protest by this organization
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
The term for the fact of Black people, specifically men, being disproportionately imprisoned
What is Mass Incarceration?
This movie brought Afrofuturism to mainstream media
What is Black Panther (2018)?
An organization devoted to tackling
systemic racism by creating black
institutions and educational systems
What is the African Civilization Society (ACS)?
This muckraker is known for publicly writing about lynchings and fighting for women’s suffrage
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This test that was used to determine if
someone was allowed into a party
What is the Brown Paper Bag Test?
This organization became known for providing free breakfast for children
What is the Black Panther Party?
US Government understanding and
acknowledging the harm they’ve
caused Black families
What are Reparations?
This Afrofuturist is the author of Parable of the Sower
Who is Octavia E. Butler?
A makeshift structure, often built with
tree branches in secluded areas so
that slaves could meet to worship in
private
What is a Hush Harbor?
An organization was created by a group of black and white civil rights activists who met at a national
conference.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
A popular jazz musician and trumpet player during the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Famous playwright from the Civil Rights era
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
Bill Clinton signed this legislation in 1994
What is the Crime Bill?
This term is the result of the theft and migratory dispersal of African people
What is the African Diaspora?
This publication challenged demeaning depictions of
Black people in the media
What is Freedom's Journal?
The Supreme Court decision that established “separate but equal”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
An African-American newspaper company founded in 1905, known as “The Communicator to the South.”
What is the Chicago Defender?
Daily Double: place bets up to 1000
CLUE: This Jackson, Mississippi restaurant had an important sit-in happen there
American female rapper who took control of her hypersexualized female image
Who is Foxy Brown?
This fashion style expresses the pride and empowerment of Black people
What is Dandyism?
A religious text that was modified to prevent slaves from inciting rebellion
What is the Slave Bible?
An activist who believed freed slaves needed to work hard and build economic stability and wealth
Who is Booker T. Washington?
A period of white supremacist terrorism and racial riots in more than 3 dozen cities in the United
states
What is Red Summer?
This person wrote the book, Go Tell It on the Mountain, as well as many other important texts of the time
Who is James Baldwin
This statue of a young Black man on a horse is a response to all the Confederate statues in Virginia
What is Rumors of War?
Author of one of the earliest works of Afrofuturism, The Conjure Woman (1899)
Who is Charles W. Chesnutt?