Key Movements
The cultural revival of African-American art centered in 1930's Harlem.
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
American memoirist most known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou?
American abolitionist and social activist who ran a network of safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A landmark decision which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
A musical period in the 1920s when the likes of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were active.
What is The Jazz Age?
American poet most known for "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Who is Langston Hughes?
An American writer who became very famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What is the North?
A nonviolent social movement in the 1960s to abolish racial segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
What is The Civil Rights Movement?
American novelist whose first novel was The Bluest Eye.
Who is Toni Morrison?
A Baptist minister and activist who was one of the most prominent leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
What does the NAACP stand for?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
A political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by Black people in the U.S.
What is Black Lives Matter?
American novelist who became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Walker?
The first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Black History Month became a month-long celebration in 19..
What is the 1970's?