After WWI
This term means soldiers leaving military service and returning to civilian life after a war.
What is Demobilization
This name describes widespread racial violence that occurred in multiple American communities during 1919.
What is the Red Summer
This prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was attacked by white mobs in 1921.
What is Greenwood
This movement campaigned against lynching and demanded greater legal protection.
What is the Anti-Lynching Movement
This amendment established national Prohibition.
These Americans returned from fighting in World War I but still faced segregation and discrimination at home.
Who were Black Veterans
The drowning of this Black teenager helped trigger days of racial violence in Chicago in 1919.
Who was Eugene Williams
Greenwood earned this nickname because of its successful Black-owned businesses and thriving community.
What is Black Wall Street
Instead of simply accepting racial violence and discrimination, Black activists increasingly did these two things to demand change.
What are Organizing and Protesting
This law provided federal rules for enforcing Prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act
This movement brought many Black Americans from the South to Northern and Midwestern cities
What is the Great Migration
Eugene Williams was swimming in this Great Lake when the incident occurred.
What is Lake Michigan
During this 1921 event, white mobs attacked Greenwood, destroying homes and businesses and leaving thousands displaced.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre
This movement emphasized Black racial pride, self-expression, and resistance to discrimination.
What is the New African American Movement
This was an illegal establishment where alcoholic beverages were sold during Prohibition.
What it Speakeasy
Competition over these two basic needs in growing cities contributed to racial tension after World War I.
What is Jobs and Housing
Black sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas, were organizing because they wanted this for their cotton.
What is Fair Payment
This predominantly Black Florida community was attacked in 1923. Residents were killed, buildings were destroyed, and survivors fled
What is Rosewood
The New Negro Movement was closely connected to this cultural movement that included Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, and Zora Neale Hurston
What is the Harlem Renaissance
This term describes the illegal production, transportation, or sale of alcohol.
What it Bootlegging
Black veterans returning home, the Great Migration, discrimination, and competition for jobs and housing all contributed to an increase in this after World War I.
This Arkansas community experienced racial violence in 1919 after Black sharecroppers organized for fair payment.
What is Elaine, Arkansas
Give the correct years for these events in order: Red Summer, Tulsa Race Massacre, Rosewood Massacre.
What are 1919, 1921, and 1923.
Complete the big idea: Activism, cultural expression, and the New Negro Movement demonstrated increasing Black racial ________.
What is Pride
This famous Chicago organized-crime figure profited from the illegal alcohol market during Prohibition.