Reconstruction
This amendment overturned the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford and granted African Americans citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case established segregation under the principle of "separate, but equal"
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
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This was the term used to identify an intense period of racist violence and race riots across the United States.
What was The Red Summer (of 1919)?
This was the movement of African Americans out of the South into urban areas in the North and West between 1910 and 1970?
What was The Great Migration?
Carter G. Woodson established this celebration, the predecessor to Black History Month.
What is Negro History Week?
Bonus for 200 points to the team that can name the Grammy winning album inspired by a title of Woodson's most well known book.
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This amendment led to the election of over 2000 African Americans to national and state legislatures
What is the 15th Amendment?
The term Jim Crow originated from a character used in this type of performance
What is minstrelsy/Black Face?
This was the term created by Du Bois used to describe the feeling of being divided between an American and Black identity.
What is Double Consciousness?
This individual compiled essays, poems, and songs in the New Negro in order to define a new Black aesthetic.
Who was Alain Locke?
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This artist is known for works celebrating the Haitian Revolution as well as their Migration Series, which documented migrants of the Great Migration.
Who was Jacob Lawrence?
(Both answers required) These are two examples of the ways African Americans strengthen familial bonds during Reconstruction.
What are:
- Placing ads in Newspapers for lost family members
- Getting married legally
This is the term used to identify the lowest point in race relations in the United States
What is the Nadir?
Booker T. Washington was criticized for this speech in which he argued Black Americans should set aside demands for political equality in exchange for economic power.
What is the Atlanta Compromise, or the Atlanta Exposition Address?
This photographer captured scenes of African American daily lives in Harlem.
Who was James Vanderzee?
In addition to the American South, many migrants between 1910-1970 originated from this region.
What is the Caribbean?
This was the term used to describe laws which limited African American freedom at the beginning of Reconstruction
What were Black Codes?
This journalist documented the often false justifications for lynchings committed by white Americans in the South and published the book, The Red Record
Who was Ida B. Wells?
This song is also known as the Black National Anthem.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing?"
Bonus for 200 Points: Name the lyricist of Lift Every Voice and Sing.
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This musician composed the music for the film Cabin in the Sky, one of the first films with an all Black cast.
Who was Duke Ellington?
Marcus Garvey and the UNIA advocated for these two principles.
What were:
- Pan-Africanism
- Black Nationalism
Bonus for 200 Points to any team that can accurately define one of these two ideologies.
Field Order 15 promised this to newly freed African Americans
What is 40 Acres of land and (later) a mule
Bonus for 200 Points to the team that can name the Union General who authorized the order.
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Like David Walker's Appeal, this poem by Claude McKay encouraged Black Americans to physically resist racist violence and dehumanizing
What is If We Must Die?
This Black woman became the first woman millionaire in the United States.
Who was Madame CJ Walker?
This historian, of Afro-Puerto Rican descent, collected a large archive of African, Latino, and African American history in order to disprove racist myths.
Who was Arturo Schomburg?
These two wives (not at the same time) of Marcus Garvey helped promote women's political freedom within the UNIA and around the world.
Who were:
- Amy Ashwood
- Amy Jacques
Bonus for 200 points for the team that can name the UNIA shipping line or their newspaper