Antebellum Era
This publication was the first African American
Newspaper
What is Freedom's Journal?
This is the name of the widespread segregation policy that existed throughout the South
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This activist organization that is still active today, included members such as Ida B. Wells and Rosa Parks
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
The decade in which rap originated
What is the 1970's?
This musician has helped influence Afrofuturism; you may know them from songs like “This is America".
Who is Childish Gambino?
This government department stemmed from slave patrols
What is the police department?
Both of these events fueled the heightened need for manufacturing labor
This person's action catalyzed the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
This term refers to the assumption that white people are the perpetual main character in Black life.
What is the White Gaze?
This woman is a singer, songwriter, and actress known for her Afrofuturism music and album covers
Who is Janelle Monae?
Here is where slaves expressed themselves religiously
What is a Hush Harbor?
This significant newspaper promoted opportunity in the North
What is the Chicago Defender?
This experiment was a significant factor in the passing of Brown v. Board of Education
What is the Doll Test?
This U.S. president signed the Crime Bill into law in September 1994.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The name of a digital art installation detailing important figures from Afrofuturism
What is Astrosankofa?
This was Harriet Tubman's birth name
Who is Araminta Ross?
These practices were used by northern cities to restrict integration in housing
What are Redlining and/or Restrictive Housing Covenants?
This man was one of the first freedom riders of SNCC and he coined the term Black Power
Who is Stokely Carmichael
The net worth of the average white family is this many times greater than that of the average black family
What is 10 times greater?
This person coined the term Afrofuturism in 1994
Who is Mark Dery?
Daily Double: place your bets up to 1000
CLUE: This percentage of Black Americans today
identify as Christian
By the end of the Great Migration this percentage of African Americans remained in the South
What is 52%?
This is what the SNCC acronym stands for
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
This revolutionary artist created the sculpture Rumors of War
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
The famed jazz musician integral to Afrofuturism, known for its Egyptian themes in his futuristic jazz
Who is SunRa?