Reconstruction
This Amendment officially abolished slavery when ratified in 1865.
13th Amendment
After Sherman's orders were overturned, freed people were evicted from their land and had to resort to this type of farming in order to survive.
What is sharecropping or crop-lien?
This author was inspired by the murder of 3 of her friends to begin recording examples of lynchings in a book called The Red Record.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This black hair entrepreneur popularized the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
The first black woman to own a TV studio.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This Amendment overturned Dred Scott v. Sanford and established equal protection for all, but this last part was overturned by later Supreme Court cases.
What is the 14th Amendment?
One unfortunate result of the post-Reconstruction times in the South was the criminalization of almost everything, turning minor offenses or debt into felonies with fines. This system would become known as....
What is convict leasing?
Name for the time period between 1917 and 1921 punctuated by race riots and massacres.
What is The Red Summer?
These women were leading figures in the suffrage movement (pick one):
Ida B. Wells and Nannie Helen Burroughs
This famous product, founded by African American Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr., made him a fortune selling cookies.
What is Famous Amos Cookies?
The first Black politician to serve in the U.S. Congress and US Senate in 1870.
a) Robert Smalls
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) Hiram Revels
C. Hiram Revels
This amendment led to over 2,000 Black men being elected to some kind of local, county, state, or federal office through the power of the vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
The Greenwood district in Tulsa, destroyed in the massacre in 1921, is better known as this.
What is Black Wall Street?
This entrepreneur and innovator preached Black economic advancement and promoted giving away money to local Black communities.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
This is the celebrated conductor of the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses and secret routes that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This organization was responsible for managing property abandoned and confiscated during the Civil War, but its primary function was to assist formerly enslaved people as they transitioned into American citizens.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This Supreme Court case approved of state laws that segregated Black and white folks in public spaces.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Booker T. Washington's uplift strategy was primarily focused on...
African Americans remaining in the South and learning a trade to gain economic independence.
This Black writer documented African American culture and linguistic expression, especially through the use of Black vernacular.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This person is current mayor of New York.
Who is Eric Adams?
Union General William Sherman issued Special Order No. 15 which redistributed about 400,000 acres in South Carolina and Florida to newly freed people assigned in small parcels. This gave rise to which phrase?
40 acres and a mule.
This is what HBCU stands for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
DuBois's uplift strategy included
higher education, civil rights, and political participation
This actor and musician was the first African American to star in her own TV show in 1939.
Ethel Waters
After the murder of George Floyd, this activist group led a worldwide protest of police brutality toward Black people.
What is Black Lives Matter?