An organization created by the federal government after the Civil War to assist formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
100
It concluded that it is Constitutional to require the races to be separate as long as their accommodations are equal
What is the Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court decision
100
He was noted for his advocacy of African American trade training and also suggested that involvement in politics should wait until African Americans were better off economically.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
100
These nine black youths were falsely charged with raping a young white woman in Alabama in 1931 and served many years in prison.
Who were the Scottsoboro Boys?
100
This group of aviators became examples of African American achievement during World War II.
What is The Tuskegee Airmen?
200
Laws put in place in many southern states to restrict the opportunities available to African Americans.
What are the Black Codes
200
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States of by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the Fifteenth Amendment
200
He coined the term "the Talented Tenth" as a name for the well-educated African Americans who he believed were needed to lead black people in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
200
Unemployment in the United States at the height of the Depression was 25%, but the unemployment rate for this group was 50%.
Who were African Americans?
200
A. Philip Randolph threatened to do this to protest the lack of job opportunities in War industry factories in the early 1940s.
What is organize a March on Washington
300
The term for a northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War either to make money or to assist African Americans
What is a carpetbagger
300
This African American journalist became one of the earliest advocates of anti-lynching legislation.
Who is Ida B. Wells.
300
He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Who was Marcus Garvey?
300
The interviews in the Unchained Memories movie worked in this New Deal program
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
400
It divided the south into 5 districts and placed federal troops there to enforce the new laws
What is the Reconstruction Act or Radical Reconstruction
400
The African American soldiers sent to the American West to fight Native Americans in the late 1800s.
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers
400
A. Philip Randolph led this union of black men in the 1920s.
Who was A. Philip Randolph?
400
This African American dance featured fast movement and acrobatic flips.
What was the Lindy Hop?
400
The Supreme Court case that said that in the area of public education, separate is inherently unequal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
500
This faith based, secret terrorist organization was created in Tennessee after the Civil War.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
500
She is considered to be the first Black millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker.
500
The 1920s name given to young, educated, ambitious African Americans.
What is New Negroes?
500
Jazz musicians created this fast-paced style of jazz in the 1940s in part to distinguish themselves from white imitators.
What is bebop?
500
Martin Luther King and his colleagues created this organization following their victory in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?