Reconstruction
When did Reconstruction start?
What is 1865
This Oklahoma neighborhood was known as “Black Wall Street.”
What is Greenwood
This formerly enslaved man became a powerful speaker and writer for abolition
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This woman refused to give up her bus seat in 1955
What is Rosa Parks
Who was the First Black President?
Who is Barack Obama
When did Reconstruction end?
What is 1877
Residents of Greenwood were largely excluded from white businesses because of this system
What is segregation / Jim Crow laws?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Many Southern states used these laws to enforce segregation
What is Jim Crow laws
This movement began in 2013 to protest police violence and racial injustice
What is Black Lives Matter
What is the amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people?
What is the 14th Amendment
Economic success in Greenwood challenged this belief held by many white Americans.
What is the belief in white superiority / Black inferiority
This act made helping escaped enslaved people illegal in the North
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
The movement used this strategy to bring attention to injustice
What is nonviolent protest
Modern Black empowerment builds on the work of this earlier movement
What is The Civil Rights Movement
What compromise ended Reconstruction in 1877?
What is The Compromise of 1877
How many Black owned businesses were in Black Wall street?
What is around 300
Their resistance laid the groundwork for this later movement
What is the Civil Rights Movement
This 1963 march featured the “I Have a Dream” speech
What is the March on Washington
This term describes the economic gap between Black and white Americans
What is the racial wealth gap
What system replaced slavery but kept many African Americans in debt?
What is Sharecropping
The success of Black Wall Street demonstrated this broader idea about Black self-sufficiency
What is Black economic independence
This speech by Sojourner Truth challenged both racism and sexism
What is “Ain’t I a Woman?”
This Supreme Court decision ruled segregation was “separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Black artists often use music, film, and art as tools for this purpose
What is empowerment, resistance, and social change