Black Leadership
An African American journalist who led a nationwide crusade against lynching in the 1890s through her investigative reporting
Ida B Wells
A period in time in which the federal government sought to reintegrate the former confederate states and to establish and protect the rights of free and formerly enslaved African Americans
Reconstruction
A thriving black community that saw rapid growth in wealth and population during the early 1900s
Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma’s greenwood district, known as black wall street was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the U.S before its 1921 massacre.
Black Wall Street
The amendment that officially abolished slavery, or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
13th Amendment
An African American civil rights activist and sociologist who co-founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and wrote “The Color Line”
WEB DuBois
laws were state and local laws in the U.S , primarily in the south, enacted between 1876 and 1965 that mandated de jure racial segregation.
Jim Crow
Written by James Weldon Johnson, the Black National Anthem encapsulates the struggles, resilience and victories of the Black American experience. What is it called?
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Established by congress in 1865, provided essential foods, shelter, and clothing, medical care, and education to newly freed African Americans and white refugees in the south during Reconstruction
Freedman's Bureau
The amendment that defined the principle of birthright citizenship in the U.S and equal protection for all.
14th Amendment
A formally enslaved man who founded Tuskegee University in 1881 and believed in an accommodationist/industrial approach to segregation
Booker T Washington
The lowest point in African American history, where racial violence was at its peak.
Nadir
Alain Locke coined the term "New Negro" to establish a vision of African American cultural rebirth and intellectualism. This became what movement?
a post - civil war agricultural system where tenant farmers, often formerly enslaved black people or poor whites, worked a landowner’s plot in exchange for housing, tools, and share
Share Cropping
The amendment that Prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen’s right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, thereby granting voting rights to Black men
15th Amendment
Booker T Washington said ""cast down your bucket where you are" because he wanted Black people to...
Build economic stability and cooperate with whites
Was a period in mid-1919 during which supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than 3 dozen cities across the United States
Red Summer
The large-scale migration of African Americans out of the rural South and into urban centers in the North.
The Great Migration
Represents African American’s separation from full participation in American society and the struggle for self-improvement due to discrimination.
The Veil
Restrictive laws for African Americans passed by southern states in 1865-1866
Black Codes
Booker T Washington gave this speech in response to the social and economic conditions of Black Americans in the South post reconstruction
The Atlanta Exposition Address
This time period encouraged the cultural expression of African Americans through music, art, dance, etc.
Harlem Renaissance
This writer dismissed the White Gaze and wrote for her people, centering the Black experience in the South
Zora Neale Hurston
Refers to the internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in an oppressive society.
A court case decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. constitution as long the facilities for each race where equal in equality
Plessy v. Ferguson