Great Migration
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Harlem Renaissance
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The movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to urban Northeast, Mideast, and West occurred between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration
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He was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
Who is Frederick Douglass
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This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics in a potion of New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
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She is an American politician and attorney serving as the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
Who is Vice-President Kamala Harris i
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An American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title
Who is Althea Neale Gibson
100
An American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella
Ella Fitzgerald
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This word can be described as the movement of a person or group of persons from one place to another.
What is Migration?
200
This black man became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
200
An all-African American basketball team from Chicago adopted its name base on the Harlem Renaissance.
What are the Harlem Globetrotters?
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He was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades. He was very influential during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who Is Duke Ellington?
200
an African-American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal, a smoke hood notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue, and the gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
200
The New Negro Movement is another name for this.
What is the Great Migration?
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The approximate number of African Americans involved in the Great Migration.
What is Six Million?
300
The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by.
Who Is W. E. B. Du Bois.?
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This word means rebirth
What is a renaissance?
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This individual born Sarah Breedlove was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in The Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam C.J Walker?
300
An American artistic gymnast. With a combined total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the most decorated American gymnast and the world's third most decorated gymnast.
Who is Simone Biles?
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An American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century.
Who is George Washington Carver?
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3 reason for the Great Migration (food is not one)
Answers will vary.
Economic exploitation, Social terror, Political disenfranchisement /Jim Crow, Racial prejudice, economic opportunities, etc, ect,
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He passed away on January 22 2021 nicknamed the "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball legendary baseball Hall of Famer who broke Babe Ruth's home run record.
Who was Hank Aaron?
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3 major contributing factors and influences of American and African American Culture as a result of the Harlem Renaissance. ( Food is not one)
What is pide music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics(civil rights)?
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He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, he is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
An American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together. He became the first human being to set foot on the North Pole.
Who was Matthew Henson?
400
Passed away on February 1, 2021, she was an American actress and fashion model. In a career spanning more than 70 decades, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American woman.
Who is Cicely Tyson?
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Name 3 major cities where the African American population almost or did double during the Great Migration.
What is (are) New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, St, Louise, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and or Indianapolis
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This individual started a paper called the Negro Word in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. He uses the concept to promote Pan-Africanism and he was also an early champion of Black Nationalism.
Who is Marcas Garvey
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A legendary nightspot in the Harlem district of New York City that for years featured prominent Black entertainers who performed for white audiences. The club served as the springboard to fame for Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and many others. The only patrons permitted at this club were white.
What is the Cotton Club?
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She was a prominent contributor to the Harlem Renaissance an African American international entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights, activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She boycotted segregated clubs and concert venues, arguing that if African-Americans could not attend her shows, she would not perform. In 1963, she participated in the March on Washington. She was asked by Coretta Scott King to become the new leader of the civil rights movement in the United States after Martin Luther King, Jr. died.
Who was Josephine Baker?
500
African American soldiers who originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Black Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars.
Who are Buffalo Soldiers
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An Inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur whose work includes a U.S. Air Force-term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He invented the Super Soaker and the Nerf Gun
Who is Lonnie Johnson
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This is the demographic change from 1970 to the present, which is a reversal of the previous 55-year trend of black migration within the United States.
What is The New Great Migration
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Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. It also provides free breakfast, tutoring to neighborhood children. `The organization operated chapters in several major American cities. The FBI viewed the Party as an enemy of the U.S. government and sought to dismantle the party at any cost.
What was the Black Panther Party, original name Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
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The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment an African-American infantry unit in WWI who spent more time in combat than any other American unit. Despite their courage, sacrifice, and dedication to their country, they returned home to face racism and segregation from their fellow countrymen.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters
(“Black Rattlers” or “Men of Bronze”)
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The first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force. Trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, they flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. Instead of being greeted with a hero's welcome, they were segregated as soon as they disembarked the ships that brought them home. German prisoners of war were treated better than black Americans U.S. Army Air Corps Airmen at a base in Italy during World War II.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen
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A house administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W Street, SE, in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington.
What is The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (Frederick Douglass Historic Home)
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Born today February 18 1965 known as an American rapper, record producer, audio engineer, record executive, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and was previously co-owner of Death Row Records.
Who is Dr. Dre?