Leaders
This 1895 speech outlined Washington’s philosophy of vocational training and racial uplift.
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
Harlem is located in this NYC burrough.
What is Manhatten?
This war caused many industrial jobs to become available to African Americans.
What is WWI?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Garvey created this shipping company to promote Black economic independence.
What is the Black Star Line?
This poet became one of the most famous voices of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The membership of this organization created by Garvey greating increased during the Great Migration.
What is the UNIA?
This form of racial terror was used to enforce white supremacy and intimidate Black communities.
What is lynching?
Du Bois edited this influential NAACP publication.
What is The Crisis?
This famous author moved to Harlem from Florida after winning a literary prize from a magazine.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This midwestern city became a major destination during the Great Migration.
What is Chicago?
These laws were used to prevent African Americans from voting.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, or grandfather clauses?
Du Bois argued that this elite group of African Americans would lead the fight for equality.
What is the Talented Tenth?
The NAACP staged a silent protest through the streets of Harlem to raise awareness of racial violence in what year?
What is 1917?
Approximately this many African Americans left the South by 1929 during the Great Migration.
What is 1.5 million?
Racial violence was so severe in mulitple cities during 1919 it became known as this.
What is Red Summer?
Garvey was eventually deported after being convicted of this federal crime.
What is mail fraud?
This magazine became an important contributor to the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Opportunity?
The migration significantly reshaped American politics by strengthening this party’s urban base.
What is the Democratic Party?
This Supreme Court case outlawed the grandfather clause in 1915.
What is Guinn v. United States?