4.1-4.2
This movement in the early 20th century affirmed the influence of African heritage; meaning blackness in French and Spanish.
What is Negritude and Negrismo?
This organization founded in 1909 formed as an interracial organization that fought distrimination and racial violence (response to lynchings).
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
There songs emerged from the adaptations of hymns, spirituals, gospels and became protest songs for the CRM.
What are freedom songs?
This movement from emerged from the need to eradicate segregatiomn and ensure federal protection of the rights guarenteed by the reconstruction amendments and the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Established in 1957, following the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, unlike the NAACP and SNCC, this organization worked with churches and local organizations to build its membership.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
The solidarity between African Americans brought international attention to African's decolonization. 17 African nations became independent. What's the name of this event?
What is the Year of Africa 1960?
This Supreme court case ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It repealed the "separate but equal" law established in the the Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education?
This event held in 1963 was a massive peaceful protest that drew 250k participants.
What is the March on Washington?
During the 1960s, some African Americans embraced this movement that promoted self- determination, cultural pride, and self-defense.
What is the Black Power Movement?
African Americans faced restrictions on their accesss to home ownership that in turn limited their ability to pass on wealth to future generations.
What is Redlining?
What protest during the Civil Rights Era led to three young activists being killed in the South?
The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project (1964)
This orgnaization promoted the right to the 2nd amendment, resistance, and social reform programs.
What is the Black Panther Party?
What is the G.I. Bill of 1944?
List 3 of the "Big Four" .
NAACP, SCLC, CORE, SNCC
Emerged in the 1960s and embraced, connections to Africa, rejected inferiority notions of what is beautiful.
What is the Black is Beautiful Movement?