Domestic Labor
True or False: Up to 90 percent of working black women in the South labored as domestic servants in white homes.
True
"We Want An End to the Robbery By the Capitalists of Our Black Community" AND "We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace" are components of what political statement?
What is The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program?
This self-made millionnaire made her fortune from her homemade line of beauty products for Black women. She was also an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She initially worked for Annie T. Malone.
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
This scholar coined the term "politics of respectability" to capture the various ways that middle-class Black women resisted racism through their style of dress, manner of speaking, church attendance, etc.
Who is Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
This city mandated Black history lessons in grades 1-8 for all public schools from 1942-1945.
Where is Chicago?
This mythical maternal figure was often caricatured with a wide grin, hearty laugher, and loyal servitude to provide evidence of the supposed humanity of the institution of slavery.
Who is Mammy?
Jamaican-born Pan-Africanist who was the director of the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation and founded the Negro World newspaper. She co-founded the Garvey movement along with her husband.
Who is Amy Ashwood Garvey?
True or False: Rihanna's makeup line Fenty is the first beauty line to cater to Black women with dark complexions.
False
She was the first Black woman elected to Congress. She was also the first woman to seek the presidential nomination and was endorsed by the Black Panther Party. Her campaign slogan was "unbought and unbossed."
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
This woman worked as a housekeeper for three generations of the Clark family in Dearborn, MI from 1955-1998, and is Dr. Carter Jackson's grandmother.
Who is Ethel Phillips?
Mix-media images that offered visual cues about politics and resistance. Tarika Lewis and Emory Douglas are among the creators.
What is revolutionary art?
This author wrote the book, Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul, which describes how black women incorporated style and beauty culture into their activism.
Who is Tanisha Ford?
This Black organization did not endorse Shirley Chisholm for her 1972 Presidential run.
What is the National Black Political Convention
This organization put out a critical statement of the movie the Help, critiquing the "representations of black life and the lack of attention given to sexual harassment and civil rights activism," among other issues
What is the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH)?
A series of covert and illegal projects actively conducted by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations, including the Black Panther Party
What is COINTELPRO?
These women portrayed an image of Black women as strong, proud African women, the descendants of African royalty, who disrupted the power of the white male gaze. Soul style was at the center of their performance of the black exotic with an array of African adornment.
Who are the Grandassa models?
These young women wore jeans, denim skirts, overalls, and natural hair for activism purposes and as a uniform of their organization.
Who are SNCC soul sisters?