WHAT WAS THE FREEDMAN'S BUREAU ?
was a federal government agency that provided food, public schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia.
What major transportation system was key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry after the Civil War?
Railroads
John Mercer Langston
served as counsel in the United States Supreme Court in the Virginia suit that was combined with others in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision declaring mandatory racial segregation unconstitutional, even under the guise of separate-but-equal.
Oliver W Byrd
This HBCU's hyphenated name came from the merger of two separate instutions: Bethune College and the Cookman Institute.
Bethune Cookman
A FARMER WHO PAYS FOR RENTING A PIECE OF LAND BY PAYING WITH A PORTION OF THE CROP GROWN ON THAT LAND
SHARECROPPER
What was the Freedmen's Bureau created to do?
Provide public schools, food, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia
is an African-American college in Washington, D.C. It was started in 1867.
Howard University
authored and signed the "Southern Manifesto" condemning the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. His call for "massive resistance" against desegregation of public schools led to many Virginia schools closing rather than be forced to integrate.
Harry F Byrd
This university in Alabama helped produce the film about the airmen who shared the university's name. It fittingly produces the most African-American aeronautics engineers in the United States.
Tuskegee University
A PERSON WHO BELIEVES THAT ONE RACE IS SUPERIOR TO THE OTHERS
RACIST
What happened to Virginia's cities after the Civil War and Reconstruction?
The cities grew with people, businesses, and factories.
Who was a high school student who led a student strike to protest separate and unequal schools?
Barbara Johns
Brown v. __________________ of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
Board of Education
This HBCU celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2021 in a small northeastern state that is also the home of President Biden.
Delaware State
THE PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR IN WHICH THE US CONGRESS PASSED LAWS TO REBUILD THE COUNTRY AND BRING THE SOUTHERN STATES BACK INTO THE UNION
RECONSTRCUTION
What was one reason that Virginia's economy was in ruins after the Civil War?
Railroads, bridges, and plantations were destroyed.
What did some schools do in order to avoid desegregation?
They closed.
Plessy v. Ferguson was an important U.S. Supreme Court case concerning whether racial segregation laws were...
constitutional
This HBCU awards more degrees to African Americans in North Carolina than any other university.
NCAT
What happened to enslaved African Americans after the Union won the Civil War?
All enslaved African Americans were freed, and hundreds of thousands were in need of housing, food, and jobs.
Which two groups of people were most affected by "Jim Crow" laws?
African Americans and Native Americans
Segregation and discrimination had an impact on:
• Housing
• Employment
as well as....
• Health care
• Political representation
• Education
This men's only HBCU in Atlanta boasts such alumni as Martin Luther King, Jr, Samuel Jackson, Spike Lee, and Edwin Moses.
Morehouse