Important People 1
Civil rights Activist popularized the phrase by any means necessary. Believed in self defense and Black autonomy.
Who is Maya Angelou?
African American world-renowned poet, memoirist, singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
What is the Negritude and Negrismo Movement?
Anti colonial and political founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris sought to reclaim the value of blackness.
Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement that aims to highlight racism, discrimination and racial inequality experienced by black people, and to promote anti-racism. Its primary concerns are police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people.
Ten Point Program
The Party’s Ten-Point Program called for freedom from oppression and imprisonment, and access to housing, healthcare, education, and employment opportunities.
Janelle Monae American singer, rapper, songwriter, and actress who has been nominated for 10 Grammys.
Who is Ella Baker?
Shes the mother of the civil rights movement. Founded the SNCC, leader in the NAACP
What role did black women contribute to the civil rights movement?
What is the Black is beautiful movement
The Black Is Beautiful movement celebrated Afrocentric aesthetics in:
natural hairstyles (e.g., the afro),
fashion (e.g., dashikis and African head wraps)
Redlining
Throughout the mid-20th century, mortgage lenders practiced redlining—the discriminatory practice of withholding mortgages to African Americans and other people of color within a defined geographical area under the pretense of “hazardous” financial risk posed by those communities.
Who is Missy Elliot
Grammy-winning rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and label executive
The Black power movement is a movement that promoted self-determination, defended violence as a viable strategy, and strove to transform Black consciousness by emphasizing cultural pride.
What was Anticolonialism
In the 1950s and 1960s, African American writers, leaders, and activists visited Africa to express diasporic solidarity and support for Africa’s decolonization.
Black feminist lesbian socialist organization
Who is Orval M Faubus and what did he do?
He stopped the little rock nine from going to school by deploying the national guard.
Who is Octavia Butler?
African American author who wrote the book on Afrofuturism wrote, "The Parable".
What was the Black Arts movement
The Black Arts movement (1965–1975) galvanized (inspired to action) the work of Black artists, writers, musicians, and dramatists who envisioned art as a political tool to achieve Black liberation.
What is Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a movement that reimagines Black pasts, such as a past without oppression, and envisions Afrocentric futures using technology and science. This boundless exploration of new possibilities for Black people comes to life in the intersections of art, music, film, fashion, literature, and architecture.
Urbanization
As Professor Holloway reveals, urban life in the North was frequently cruel and often difficult, but it was also a life forged of free will and absent a regional and cultural history of forced bondage
remember, like when they hung out in nature they could use it recreationally instead of labor
Who is A Phillip Randolph and what were his contributions to the civil rights movement(name at least 2)
A. Philip Randolph was a labor leader and civil rights activist who founded the nation's first major Black labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Who is Ruth Brown?
Ruth Brown, African American Singer Song writer, Queen of RnB
Built Atlantic records
"Hey mama, he treats your daughter mean"
What was the nation of Islam
The Nation of Islam (NOI) was founded in Detroit in 1930, blending basic beliefs and practices of Islam (devotion to Allah, study of the Qur’an) with mythology and Black Nationalist ideology.
What is the Black freedom movement
The Black Freedom movement encompasses a period of transnational activism from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. It is marked by both the Civil Rights movement, which annulled Jim Crow laws and practices, and the Black Power movement, which heightened Black consciousness and racial pride in the United States and abroad.
Congressional black caucus
created during the high point of the Black Power Movement, when African Americans wanted greater political influence, and were gaining more seats in Congress. When President Nixon refused to meet with the Caucus after its formation, the CBC boycotted the 1971 State of the Union.