Unions
A group of workers that collectively fight for to improve their quality of life in the workplace
What is a union?
The state with the most HBCUs in the country
What is Alabama?
In 1955, an African American women gained fame for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The name of the country that has been occupied by Israel since 1948
What is Palestine?
The region of the country where most Black people live
What is the South?
A popular right that unions won for the working class in 1940 from an over 70 year struggle
What is the 8-hour work day?
The meaning of the acronym SLYM
What is the Southern Labor Youth Movement?
The violent attack on civil rights organizers (fighting for voting rights) in Selma, AL in 1965
What is Bloody Sunday?
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of completely exterminating that nation or group.
What is genocide?
The name of the racial segregation system of the South from the 1870s to 1960s
What is Jim Crow?
The book that depicts the history of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO, a multiracial union based in Winston-Salem, NC in the 20th century
What is Civil Rights Unionism [Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South]?
The student, civil rights organization that came out of the sit-in movement of 1960
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
The two most decisive laws passed during the Civil Rights Revolution
What are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The graduate student at Columbia University abducted by ICE, who was the lead negotiator during last year’s pro-Palestine student encampments
Who is Mahmoud Khalil?
What is North Carolina?
The name of the post-World War II campaign by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to unionize every industry in the South
What is Operation Dixie?
The activities that SNCC led in the early sixties that desegregated bus terminals across the South
What are the Freedom Rides?
Name three historical figures that of the Civil Rights Revolution, without naming MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, or Malcolm X.
John Lewis, Ella Baker, W.E.B. Du Bois, Julian Bond, A. Philip Randolph, Medgar Evans, Kwame Ture, Thurgood Marshall, Fannie Lou, Frederick Douglas, Angela Davis, etc.
The type of colonialism in which the indigenous people of a colonized region are displaced by settlers who permanently form a society there.
What is settler colonialism?
The alliance between white people of all class backgrounds that uses racism to distract the white working class from uniting with their fellow working-class people of different backgrounds
What is the Solid South?
The Forbes estimate that the dockworkers' union (ILA) strike could cost the economy per week
What is up to $7.5 billion?
The southern student group that organized anti-lynching campaigns and worker strikes across the South in the 1930s and 40s?
What is the Southern Negro Youth Congress?
The political repression movement that disconnected the civil rights organizing of the 30s/40s with the civil rights movement of the 50s/60s/70s
What is McCarthyism? (or What is the Second Red Scare?)
Name a popular company profiting from the genocide in Gaza
Who is Apple, Cisco, Dell, General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, Coco-Cola, McDonalds, Nestle, Pepsi, Starbucks, Puma, Zara, Amazon, AIRBNB, Ebay, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Wix.com, Axa, Citibank, Danske Bank, JPMorgan Chase, TEVA, CyberArk, McAfee, Disney, Caterpillar (CAT), L'oreal?
The town and state, where Black, white, native, and Latino workers unionized the largest meatpacking factory in the world after 16 years of struggle
What is Tar Heel, North Carolina?