Vocab
Cuss words, swear words & general Inappropriateness
What is profanity?
The "very substance" of Troy
What is language
In Joe Turner, Herald Loomis migrates to find his wife. In the Piano lesson why does Lymon migrate north?
To run away from being out back in prison.
When doe the play "Joe Turner" take place?
1911
Original Name of our school
NationHouse Positive Action Center
some one who writes plays - you must spell it too
what is a playwright
What infects Troy's relationship with Cory
Bitterness because it was too late for him to play professional baseball
1867 was the passing of the peonage Abolition Act when was the first conviction under this act?
When is 1901?
When Jackie Robinson broke the major-league color line.
1947
Name of DuBois book published in 1903
What is The Souls of Black Folks?
Debt Slavery
What is peonage?
The first actor to play Troy
How were African Americans trapped into kept in peonage even after it was abolished?
The white farmer would pay their debts then they would have to work off the never-ending debts on the white farmer's land.
when was the Peonage Abolition Act?
1867
Movement that led to the creation of the NAACP
What is the Niagra movement?
Abolition
Banning, outlawing, not allowing
He refuses to go into debt slavery but is ignored by the Judge
Who is Lymon?
What did Booker T Washington believe that WEB Dubois disagreed with?
Booker T Washington believed that African Americans should tolerate discrimination and concentrate on educating themselves.
Why many Blacks left sharecropping.
It was not enough to live on/survive
Name the two elders in pictures behind Mama Mavhu's desk.
Who are Mama Derricks and Baba Orefo
Perpetual means
Never ending
The initial job that Martha and Herald had
What is sharecropping?
How is "confinement" implied in the play's title?
The quality of this answer will be determined by your teacher. answer must include something about fences and being closed in
Name of the movement of African people from the south to the north
What is the Great Migration?
What does CIBI stand for?
Council of Independent Black Institutions?