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.
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.
Ida B. Wells
This light-skinned Black woman was a talented dancer, singer, and actor, starring as the seductive "Georgia Brown" in Cabin in the Sky. She went on to become a civil rights advocate.
Who is Lena Horne?
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.
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....
Convict Leasing
The time period between 1917 and 1921 punctuated by race riots and massacres is also known as
The Red Summer
These women were leading figures in the suffrage movement (name one):
Ida B. Wells and Nannie Helen Burroughs
This is what Black baseball players and entrepreneurs created after being barred from playing in Major League Baseball.
What is the Negro Leagues?
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
One major positive effect of the 15th Amendment in the South was...
Over 2,000 Black men were elected to some kind of local, county, state, or federal office through the power of the vote.
The Greenwood district in Tulsa, destroyed in the massacre in 1921, is better known as
Black Wall Street
This entreprenuer and innovator preached Black economic advancement and promoted giving away money to local Black communities.
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 Amendment secured Black men the right to vote (for a while).
15th Amendment
This Supreme Court case approved of state laws that segregated Black and white folks in public spaces.
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Black athletes dominated this sport in the mid-late 1800s, winning many of the marquee competitions before being pushed out entirely by the early 1900s. The sport became and remains nearly all-White.
Horse racing
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?