Reconstruction
Identify the constitutional amendment that guaranteed citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
The forced separation of people by race in the South was known as
segregation
I was a co-founder of the NAACP and led the Anti-Lynching Campaign. Who am I?
Ida B. Wells
Identify the direction most African Americans went during the Great Migration.
North
Name at last one poet from the Harlem Renaissance (double points if you can name two)
Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, etc.
Identify the organization that helped formerly enslaved people transition to freedom by building schools, providing healthcare, reuniting loved ones, etc.
Freedman's Bureau
He promoted career based education and economic uplift for Black Americans, instead of fighting for an end to segregation.
Booker T. Washington
I was a co-founder of the NAACP and a firm opponent of Booker T Washington and his "accommodationist" approach to race issues. Who am I?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Identify the world wide event going on during the early stages of the Great Migration which led to more jobs being available in the North.
World War I
Homer Plessy's Supreme Court case unfortunately led to this legal principle being declared constitutional
Separate but Equal"
Laws designed to restrict and control the rights and movement of Black people during Reconstruction were collectively known as
Black Codes
Identify three ways that Black people were disenfranchised in the Jim Crow era.
Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause,
I founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and promoted the idea of Black people controlling their own communities, support Black owned businesses, and even moving to Africa. Who am I?
Marcus Garvey
This city was the site of the most deadly race massacre in American history and led to the destruction of "Black Wall Street"
Tulsa, Oklahoma
These institutions allowed Black students to earn advanced degrees, in classes filled with other Black students and professors
What are HBCUS
This constitutional amendment forbid states from putting limits of voting based on race or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th Amendment
________ was a common way to control Black people and was an early form of mass incarceration.
Convict Leasing
I was an African American entrepreneur who made a fortune in the cosmetics industry, specializing in hair products for Black women. Who am I?
Madam C.J. Walker
An idea supported by Marcus Garvey to free Black people from oppressive countries/government
Back to Africa Movement
The neighborhood at the center of Black art, music, photography, and learning in the 1920s and 30s
Harlem
Collective nick name for the first historically Black fraternities and sororities
Divine 9
The collective name for all Afro-descended people outside of Africa
African Diaspora
I led the NAACP in the 1920s and wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing", known today as the "Black National Anthem." Who am I?
James Weldon Johnson
Organization created during the Great Migration to help Black people transition to urban life in northern cities.
National Urban League
Known as the "Father of Black History," I started National Negro History week, emphasizing the importance of Black people (and all Americans) learning African American History. Who am I?
Carter Woodson