The end of this war was the primary cause of the Reonstruction Era
What is the Civil War?
This leader was pivotal in the founding of the NAACP and was born in Great Barrington, MA
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
Emerging from New Orleans at the turn of the century, this music style dominated clubs and speakeasies.
What is Jazz?
Getting her start in Harlem, she went on to tour with Count Basie and recorded Strange Fruit
Who is Billie Holiday?
She famously refused to get up from her seat on the bus, in defiance of Jim Crow laws in the South.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The President who vetoed and tried to stop Congressional plans for Reconstruction in the South
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The education model developed by Booker T Washington in Alabama
What is the Tuskegee Model
Black Americans arrived in Chicago, Detroit and New York City as part of the Great Migration, escaping this exploitive lifestyle in the South
What is the sharecropping?
Known as the King of Soul, he wrote what would become an anthem for the Civil Rights movement: A Change is Gonna Come
Who is Sam Cooke?
Writing in a Letter from Birmingham Jail he advocated for non-violent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
The election of 1876 resulted in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes and marked the end of the Reconstruction Era as part of what agreement?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The type of job skills advocated by Booker T Washington that promoted self-improvement and economic equality.
What is industrial
The nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, publisher of The Crisis, and founded ust before the start of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the N.A.A.C.P.?
Known as the King of Pop, he started performing with his brothers in the Jackson 5. Having a career that spanned four decades, he was the most significant musician of the twentieth century.
Who is Michael Jackson?
The author of the autobiography March led nonviolent protests across the South, including the March from Selma. He was later elected to serve in the House of Representatives from Georgia's fifth district.
Who is John Lewis?
This group in Congress, comprised of former abolitionists, aimed to punish the former Confederate States as part of their plan for Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans
Through her newspaper in Memphis she documented and compiled statistics about the violent experiences of lynching of Black Americans in the South.
Who is Ida B. Wells
He was first published in The Crisis and his work includes over 20 plays, 2 novels, and 16 volumes of poems including The Weary Blues and Harlem, which is also known as A Dream Deferred
Who is Langston Hughes?
Known as the "Black National Anthem," this hymn describes the experience of freedpeople after slavery and the path, or "stony road," that Black Americans continue on.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing?
A vocal leader for Black empowerment and known for his pursuit of racial justice, he was born Malcolm Little.
Who is Malcolm X?
Also known as the Peach State, this state was the last to rejoin the United States after the
What is Georgia?
Leaders from the Niagara Movement including W.E.B. DuBois met and developed the goals of the Civil Rights movement at this conference.
What is the Amenia Conference.
A segregated, "whites only," speakeasy where many musicians, including Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong, got their start.
What is the Cotton Club?
She performed an open-air concert for thousands from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after she was denied the opportunity to sing to an integrated audience at Constitution Hall.
Who is Marian Anderson?
The first Black American Supreme Court Justice and the architect of the NAACP legal strategy to fight Jim Crow and end segregation.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?