New Negro Movement
This was the name of the cultural flourishing of Black artists and writers in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What Supreme Court case ended legal segregation in public schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
This genre blends science fiction, Black culture, and imagination.
What is Afrofuturism?
What term refers to the discriminatory practice of denying loans to people in certain areas based on racial composition?
What is redlining?
He co-founded the NAACP and promoted the "Talented Tenth."
He believed Black economic independence and self-help were essential; he founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern and Western cities during the 20th century.
What was the Great Migration?
Who popularized the phrase “Black Power” in 1966?
Stokely Carmichael
This boxer used his fame to speak out against racism and refuse service in the Vietnam War.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
What religious group was central to Malcolm X and Black nationalism in the mid-20th century?
Nation of Islam
This scholar wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro and is known as the father of Black History Month
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Name one major push factor that led African Americans to leave the South.
Jim Crow laws / racial violence / lack of economic opportunities.
This group of student activists led nonviolent sit-ins.
What is SNCC?
This movement emphasized Black beauty and self-empowerment in the 60s and 70s
What is the Black is Beautiful Movement?
This 1940s protest movement aimed to end discrimination in defense industries and the military.
What is the Double V Campaign?
She said, "Ain’t I a Woman?" challenging gender and race oppression.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Name one famous musician of the Harlem Renaissance.
Duke Ellington / Louis Armstrong / Bessie Smith.
This phrase summarized Malcolm X's political philosophy
What is "The Ballot or the Bullet"?
What genre of music emerged in the Bronx in the 1970s as a voice of Black and Latino youth?
What is Hip-hop?
How did enslaved Africans use religion as a form of resistance?
Through spirituals, secret worship, and coded messages of liberation
He supported Black emigration to Africa through the UNIA
Who is Marcus Garvey?
What made the New Negro Movement distinct from earlier civil rights approaches?
Emphasis on cultural pride over accommodation.
These 4 major organizations were central to the Civil Rights Movement.
What are the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and CORE?
This musician is known for incorporating African themes and futurism into funk
Who is Sun Ra?
What role did Black churches play during Reconstruction and Jim Crow?
Centers for community organizing, education, and political leadership
What does “intersectionality” mean in modern Black political thought?
Recognition that race, gender, and class all shape systems of oppression