Unit 1
Emerged along the Nile River in about 3150 BCE
What is Egypt?
Enslaved black people used this form of artistic expression to communicate plans for escape
What are hymns/spirituals?
This amendment official made slavery illegal, except as a punishment for a crime
What is the 13th Amendment?
This supreme court case desegregated public schools
Oral historians
Who are Griots?
15% of captive Africans died as a result of the horrible conditions of the
What is the Middle Passage?
This era lasted from 1865-1877
This movement was a political, cultural and literary movement of the 1930s-50s that started with French speaking Caribbean
What is the Négritude?
Ghana, Mali and Songhai are examples of empires of this category
What is the Sudanic/Sahelian Empires?
48% of all Africans who were brought to the U.S directly from Africa arrived in, also know as the center of U.S slave trading
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
This government agency provided land distribution, clothing, food, water, healthcare, communication with family members, jobs and education
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This movement emerged in spanish-speaking Caribbean
What is the Negrismo movement?
One of the earliest ironworking societies of West African
What is the Nok?
This supreme court decision in 1857 lead to the civil war and stated that African Americans were not citizens
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This order aimed to redistribute about 400,000 acres of confiscated land
What is Special Field Order No.15?
This discriminatory practice labeled predominately Black areas hazadorous
What is Redlining?
Described as "one of the most dramatic architectural landscapes in sub-Saharan African."
What is Great Zimbabwe?
Ladinos were part of a generation known as
What is Atlantic Creoles?
This organization aimed to unite all black people
What is the Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA)?
The first African American pilots in the United States military
What are the Tuskegee Airmen?