Reconstruction
This amendment officially abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These laws, enacted after the Civil War, restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This city experienced the worst rioting during the Red Summer, with 38 people killed over 5 days.
What is Chicago?
This type of institution, often abbreviated as HBCU, was established to provide higher education for African American students.
What is a Historically Black College or University?
This cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s was centered in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
He was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
This term was coined by James Weldon Johnson to describe the racial violence of 1919.
What is the Red Summer?
Founded in 1816, this was the first Black Christian denomination in the U.S.
What is the African Methodist Episcopalian Church?
This blues singer, known as the "Mother of the Blues", was one of the earliest recorded blues musicians.
Who is Ma Rainey?
This amendment defined birthright citizenship and granted equal protection to all people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This practice involved states leasing out prisoners, often African Americans arrested on minor charges, as laborers.
What is Convict leasing?
This 1921 event destroyed the affluent African American community known as "Black Wall Street".
What is The Tulsa Race Massacre?
This woman became the first female self-made millionaire in America through her hair care products for black women.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
He coined the term "new negro"
Who is Alain Locke?
This was the purpose of The Freedman's Bureau
What is to assist formerly enslaved people as they transitioned into American citizens.
This term refers to the system of racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern United States from the 1870s to the 1960s.
What is Jim Crow?
This even completely destroyed a town and killed 27 people
What is the Rosewood massacre?
This historical establishment was the first of it's kind and is still running to this day. Get yourself an account!
What is Citizen's Savings Bank and Trust?
This icon pioneered scat singing and several innovative developments in jazz
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This was the period from 1865-1877 when the federal government sought to reintegrate former Confederate states and establish rights for freed African Americans.
What is Reconstruction?
These three voting suppression tactics were commonly used to disenfranchise black voters in the Jim Crow era.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses?
This poet wrote "If We Must Die" in response to the racial violence of the Red Summer.
Who is Claude Mckay?
This 1890 act required states to either allow black students into existing colleges or create separate institutions for them.
What is the 2nd Morril Act?
This sculptor gained attention for her sculptures of figures like Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Who is Augusta Savage?