Unit 1
Early movement of people in Sub-Saharan people in Africa across the continent
Bantu Migrations
Isolated communities where African Americans would reside after escaping slavery
Maroon Societies
Major movement of African Americans from the South to the North and West regions
Great Migration
Brown v Board of Education
Political and cultural unity of Black people all around the globe.
Pan Africanism
A name for an African storyteller/musician/historian
Griot
What region in the world had the largest amount of slavery?
Brazil
Name for the era when the federal government tried to reintegrate Black citizens into society
Reconstruction
A practice of withholding resources from certain areas
Redlining
Group that Malcolm X was initially a part of
Nation of Islam
African Empire known for its large stone fortifications
Great Zimbabwe
First published African American woman
Phyllis Wheatley
Name for the lowpoint in African American History (early 1900's)
The Nadir
Cultural and political movement that combines Black experiences with an afrocentric vision of the future.
Afrofuturism
Movement in the 1960's-1970's that encouraged natural hair like Afros and headwraps
Black is Beautiful
What outside religions had huge influence on Africa? (2 possible answers)
Christianity and Islam
Slaveship where a major rebellion occurred and led to freedom for the enslaved aboard
Amistad
Who was the controversial African American intellectual who encouraged the "Back to Africa" movement
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B Dubois formed what group
NAACP
First Black woman in congress
Shirley Chisholm
African queen who protected her kingdom against Portuguese enslavers
Queen Nzinga
Juneteenth celebrates enslaved Blacks being freed where?
Galveston, Tx
First self made female millionaire in the U.S
Madame C.J Walker
Broke the color barrier in major league Baseball
Jackie Robinson
A movement in France to reclaim Black values and fight assimilation
Negritude