Reconstruction
Define lynching
Mob violence
Convicted without due process
Booker T. Washington was a founder and principle at what institution
Tuskegee Institute
He was the first African American to dine with a US President
Booker T. Washington
In "The Red Record", this is another word for "reason"
"excuse"
Describe the 15th amendment
Gave Black men the right to vote
These laws limited social freedoms for newly freed people
Black codes
These two authors attended the same college for their undergraduate degrees
WEB Dubois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett
This author was born in Mississippi and later moved to Tennessee
Ida B. Wells
What famous phrase was Washington best known for
"Cast down your buckets"
Washington gave his famous speech in what southern city
Atlanta
Describe the 14th amendment
Granted citizenship to all born or naturalized people; equal protection (1866)
Washington encouraged what type of education
Industrial and trade based education
These two co-founded the NAACP
Dubois and Wells
1. Increased Civic duty
2. Desegregation
3. Liberal arts based education
4. Be unafraid of conflict
True or false, By 1890, 58% of all Black people aged 10-65 were working.
True
Name two early reparation plans
1. 40 acres and a mule
2. Creation of the Freedman's Bureau
Cheney University, Pennsylvania (1837)
This author was not born into slavery
Dubois
What is Wells last excuse for lynching and why is it controversial
a. Avenging women from sexual assault
b. Definitions of assault unclear, women are not equally protected (racial differences), false accusations, still seen in our modern day
Dubois believed that this group of people were to take the lead in finding ways to advance Black life
The Talented Tenth
This state had the harshest Black Codes
South Carolina
The Morrill Acts of 1890 helped to establish what
This author died one week before this historic event
WEB Dubois
True or false: Dubois called Washington's speech "Atlanta Compromise"
True
Describe Double-Consciousness
Having more than one social identity and trying to understand ones sense of self
Two ways of understanding who you are
EX: Being Black and American