Segregation
The system of laws that prevented African Americans from having equal rights after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This is what the Progressive Movement fought for.
This man was the leader of the movement of African Americans west.
Who was Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
This is what happened to Africa in the 1900s by European superpowers.
What is the "scramble for Africa," or colonization/imperialism?
This is the name for the movement of African Americans north, west, and to cities.
What is the Great Migration?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and intimidation.
What are barriers to African American voting after Reconstruction?
This prominent Progressive founded Tuskegee Institute, and argued for a peaceful approach to civil rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
These soldiers were the first National Park Soldiers. They were African Americans who had moved west and joined the military. There is a Bob Marley song named after them!
What are Buffalo Soldiers?
Also known as the 369th Infantry, this unit fought more combat in WWI than any other American unit.
Who were the Harlem Hellfighters?
This is the name for a period of racial violence in 1919.
What is the Red Summer?
This was legalized by Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is separate but equal?
This individual lead the Black Protest & Niagara movement, arguing for a more radical approach to civil rights.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
One of the most brilliant scientists of the 1900s, who researched at Tuskegee Institute and revolutionized new uses for peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes.
Who was George Washington Carver?
This opinion reflected W.E.B. DuBois' view on African Americans viewing the military in WWI.
What is that they should - it will allow them to fight for Democracy and show that they deserve equality back at home?
This is the name for the period of cultural expression for African Americans.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This was something African Americans could not do under Jim Crow laws.
What is voting, intermarriage, using the same facilities as white people, etc.
This organization founded The Crisis magazine and fought Jim Crow laws through legal action, such as lawsuits.
What is the NAACP?
This was the name for African Americans who moved west in search of freedom and equality.
Who were "exodusters"?
This is what Congressman Rankin did to stop the G.I. Bill from effectively helping African American veterans.
What is making the benefits distributed by states?
This movement argued that black people around the world should create their own societies distinct and separate from white people. For example, the Black Star Line was founded to support this movement.
What is the Black Nationalism movement/Garveyism?
This is the term for a murder without due process.
What is a lynching?
This compromise is Booker T. Washington's idea that black and white people needed to work together to achieve equality - and that African Americans should wait and cooperate for their equality. This was coined after he gave a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition.
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
This African American man was one of the first people to reach the North Pole.
Who was Matthew Henson?
This is the movement/idea that people of African heritage from around the world should work together to achieve freedom and equality.
What is Pan-Africanism?
This is what Executive Order 8802 from FDR did.
What is banning segregation in defense industries?