Reconstruction
This Amendment officially abolished slavery when ratified in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case approved of state laws that segregated Black and white folks in public spaces. It upheld "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This song is the Black National Anthem.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing?"
This entrepreneur became the first woman millionaire in America for her hair care products.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
This is what HBCU stands for.
What is "Historically Black College and University?"
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?
The agreement between Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans to let Republicans keep the presidency if they removed Federal troops from the south after the Civil War. This agreement effectively ended Reconstruction and led to Jim Crow laws.
What is The Compromise of 1877?
The time period between 1917 and 1921 (specifically in 1919) punctuated by race riots and massacres. Many lynchings also occurred during this time.
What is The Red Summer?
This investigative journalist 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?
During the Harlem Renaissance, historian Carter G. Woodson created this event that educated people on and celebrated Black achievements throughout the ages.
What is Black History Month?
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
Who is C. Hiram Revels?
What are Union Leagues?
The Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma destroyed in the Tulsa massacre in 1921, is better known as this because of its thriving businesses and neighborhoods.
What is Black Wall Street?
This Harlem Renaissance anthropologist documented Black American culture, folklore, and linguistics through her novels and essays. Her best known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This was the largest internal migration that happened within the United States where six million Black Americans moved from the South to both the North and West between 1910-1970.
What is the Great Migration?
This Amendment secured Black men the right to vote (for a while).
What is the 15th 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?
Booker T. Washington's uplift strategy was primarily focused on...
What is vocational/industrial training?
What is economic independence?
What is segregation (for safety reasons)?
This Black woman activist was known for championing racial equality and women's suffrage. She was one of the founders of the NAACP and the FIRST president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Her motto for NACW was "Lifting As We Climb."
Who is Mary Church Terrell?
Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa Movement founded this ship company to repatriate Black Americans to Africa.
What is the Black Star Line?
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?
What is "40 acres and a mule" ?
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 in order to keep Black Americans from economic advancement. These laws were called
What are vagrancy laws?
DuBois's uplift strategy included
What is civil rights?
What is voting/participating in politics?
What is liberal arts education?
This Black women's rights activist started her own vocational school in 1909 (the National Training School for Women and Girls). She later became president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
Who is Nannie Helen Burroughs?
This is the first Black Christian denomination in the United States.
What is the A.M.E. church? (African Methodist Episcopal)