DC & Southern Black and Brown Movements
This DC-based organization fights for tenant rights and racial equity in housing.
What is ONE DC?
This Washington, DC, leader co-founded SNCC and was instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Marion Barry?
The process of speaking before elected officials to advocate for housing rights
What is Testimony?
This district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a prosperous Black community before being destroyed in 1921.
What is Black Wall Street?
This legendary DC musician is known as the "Godfather of Go-Go."
What is Chuck Brown?
A movement that resists displacement and fights for equitable housing in New Orleans.
What is Take Back the Land?
This civil rights activist and lawyer worked in the South to desegregate schools and public spaces.
What is Medgar Evers?
A direct action protest tactic where tenants refuse to pay rent due to unfair housing conditions.
What is a Rent Strike?
This housing model prioritizes community control and long-term affordability over profit.
What is Social Housing?
This genre of music originated in DC and blends funk, hip-hop, and Afro-Latin sounds.
What is Go-Go?
This Atlanta-based coalition organizes for affordable housing and tenant rights.
What is Housing Justice League?
This Southern activist co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. King.
What is Ella Baker?
This term describes collective demonstrations outside city council offices or meetings.
What is a Protest?
This self-sufficient Black town in Florida was founded by formerly enslaved people but faced economic suppression.
What is Eatonville?
This New Orleans cultural tradition mixes music and marching in joyous processions.
What is a Second Line?
This organization has fought against environmental racism and gentrification in the Gulf South, including Louisiana.
What is Gulf South for a Green New Deal?
This Mississippi-based activist and sharecropper became a powerful voice for Black voting rights in the South.
What is Fannie Lou Hamer?
A legal process that allows tenants to demand repairs by paying rent into an escrow account instead of to landlords.
What is Rent Escrow?
A historic Black community in DC, demolished for "urban renewal" to build a freeway.
What is Barry Farm?
This Black woman from Alabama became the first self-made female millionaire in the U.S. through her haircare empire.
What is Madam C.J. Walker?
This DC law helps tenants purchase their building before landlords sell.
What is TOPA (Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act)?
This DC-born civil rights leader and attorney won Brown v. Board of Education, ending legal school segregation.
What is Charles Hamilton Houston?
This method of advocacy involves organizing large numbers of people to pressure policymakers via calls, emails, and public testimony.
What is a Grassroots Campaign?
This once-thriving Black neighborhood in Georgia was destroyed to make room for a park.
What is Vine City?
This festival in Atlanta celebrates Black culture, arts, and music and has run for over 50 years.
What is the Atlanta Black Arts Festival?