Prominent Figures
This individual is one of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad. Her vast geographic knowledge and social network to serve as a spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas where many enslaved people died, were tortured, starved, and attempted to jump overboard.
What is the Middle Passage?
The number of climate zones on the African continent.
What is five?
The amendment that granted Black men voting rights.
What is the 15th amendment?
What are boycotts, marches, sit-ins?
This individual advocated for industrial education and training as a means of economic advancement and independence.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
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This series of migrations occurred on the African continent from 1500 BCE to 500 CE was caused by population growth and resulted in linguistic diversity.
What is the Bantu migration?
This title of this minstrel show became known as an entire era of racial violence, brutality, and discrimination against African Americans.
What is "Jim Crow"?
What is the Great Migration?
This individual promoted a liberal arts education and a civil rights agenda for African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
This 1863 wartime order, declared freedom for enslaved people held in the Confederate states still at war against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This society is best known for their pottery, naturalistic terracotta sculptures of animals and people adorned by various hairstyles and jewelry, and stone instruments. These artifacts are the most ancient extant evidence of a complex, settled society in sub-Saharan Africa.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause?
This Harlem Renaissance poet wrote "I, too, Am America".
Who is Langston Hughes?
Who is Ella Baker?
These communities emerged throughout the African diaspora, often in remote and hidden environments beyond the purview of enslavers. Some communities lasted for just a few years, while others continued for a full century.
The term for the practice of Africans blending local spiritual practices with Christianity and/or Islam.
What is religious syncretism?
What are Black codes?
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
He led the largest pan-African movement in African American history as founder of the UNIA.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This female monarch engaged in 30 years of guerilla warfare against the Portuguese to maintain sovereignty and control of her kingdom. She participated in the slave trade to amass wealth and political influence, and expanded Matamba’s military by offering sanctuary for those who escaped Portuguese enslavement and joined her forces.
Who is Queen Njinga?
The system in which states and companies got rich by arresting mostly Black men and then forcing them to work for major companies.
What is convict leasing?
This man named the "New Negro movement" and encouraged African Americans to define their own identity and to advocate for themselves politically in the midst of the nadir’s atrocities.
Who is Alain Locke?