People
Events
Sources
Concepts/Ideas
Misc.
100
Led the Combahee River Raid, as well as serving as nurse and spy in the Civil War
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
Most famous and well attended event of Black Freedom Movement - where John Lewis and MLK called out economic inequality differently
What is the March on Washington?
100
African Kingdom known for terracotta sculpture
Who are the Nok?
100
Laws that enforced segregation of races in public spaces.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
This African empire on the east coast mixed several cultures, languages, and religions.
What is the Swahili Coast?
200
Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, known for fighting off European colonizers
Who is Queen Nzinga?
200
This movement's legacies are still seen today in African languages such as Swahili, Kikongo, and Zulu.
What is the Bantu migration?
200
Title of a song central to the Civil Rights Movement; Dr King describes as "It is not just a song; it is a resolve. A few minutes later, I have seen those same youngsters refuse to turn around from the onrush of a police dog, refuse to turn around before a pugnacious "
Can't Turn Me Around
200
Media like Black Panther and Star Trek represent this idea.
What is Afrofuturism?
200
This is one of the most violent slave revolts in the US. Occurred in Virginia in 1831.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
300
Known for founding the UNIA, promoting Pan-Africanism and black nationalism
Who is Marcus Garvey?
300
Led by Jemmy in 1739 in South Carolina
Causes: Spanish Florida offering freedom to Catholics
Effects: harsher slave codes
Stono Rebellion
300
"Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. And in this connection, it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world"
The Atlantic Exposition Address quoted here, was written by this scholar who supported segregated, vocational training for Black Americans to ascend in American society.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
The idea of being consistently aware of two identities/positionalities - described as "The Veil" and "The Mask"
What is double consciousness?
300
Known for his speech, "The Ballot or the Bullet," in which he advocated for any means necessary to gain civil rights for Black Americans.
Who is Malcom X?
400
Key leader of CORE, before going to help organize the March on Washington
Who is Bayard Rustin?
400
WEB DuBois, Mary Church Terrell, and others find this civil rights group in 1909.
What is the NAACP?
400
"The colored citizen is an American of African descent. Cannot a name be found that will explain these two facts? I suggest one, and I beg your readers to reflect on it before you reject it as unsuitable. It is ‘Afric-American’ or, written in one word, “Africamerican.’ It asserts that most important truth, that the colored citizen is as truly a citizen of the United States as the white.”
This quote represents this debate.
What is naming/identity?
400
Religious practices such as veneration of the ancestors, divination, healing practices, and collective singing and dancing emerged as a result of this.
What is religious syncretism?
400
This expansion of land as a result of the Haitian Revolution led to a further debate and expansion of slavery in the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
500
A key maroon leader in wars against colonizing powers in North America
Who is Queen Nanny or Bayano?
500
Law that established HBCUs by dictating that colleges have a separate space for black students (or desegregate their campus)
What is the Second Morill Act of 1890?
500
African Kingdom known for their structures.
What is (Great) Zimbabwe?
500
This word relates to the revaluing of something (such as a human life) to be treated as an object for sale (enslaved).
What is commidfication?
500
One of the first successful black musicals, made into a film in the 1940s.
What is Cabin in the Sky?