Individuals
The President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The district that was referred to as "Black Wall Street"
Where is Greenwood, Tulsa, OK?
Measures to restrict voting for Black Americans
What are literacy tests, polling taxes, and grandfather clauses?
Amendments passed during Reconstruction
What are the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments?
Constitutional clause that established if an enslaved person ran away to a free state- they would still belong to their enslaver.
Fugitive Slave Clause
She made a strategic decision to reject Jim Crow laws. This decison sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Landmark Supreme Court case that ruled separate is not equal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
A system in which freed people rented land and paid interest on crops dictated by the landlord.
What is share-cropping?
Another name for the Transatlantic Slave Trade
What is the middle passage?
He changed his last name "Little" because many African Americans last names have origins to enslavement.
Who is Malcolm X?
Created in Oakland to combat police violence and create community programs.
What is the Black Panther Party?
Terrorist bombing by the KKK that claimed the lives of 4 African American girls.
Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church
Granted the right to vote for African American men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Segregation that occurs "naturally", NOT by law
What is de facto segregation?
Chairman of the Chicago Division Black Panthers. He was brutally murdered by FBI officers in order to stop his rise to power.
Who is Fred Hampton?
He was the Supreme Courts first African American justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The name of the people who rode into the South on buses challenging the lack of enforcement of desegregation.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This Presidential decree paved the way for the 13th Amendment
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The exception of the 13th amendment
Who are convicted criminals?
His brutal murder was considered the catalyst for the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
A revolutionary program created by the Black Panthers that is now adopted in all American schools.
What is free breakfast?
Ended discriminatory practices (like redlining) in housing.
What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968
A landmark Supreme Court case that ruled segregation is OK so long as the amenities/facilities are equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Granted citizenship to formerly enslaved persons. Established birthright citizenship.
What is the 14th amendment?