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Prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement. He eventually developed the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later serving as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and lastly as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP). Hint: not Malcom-X
Who is Stokley Carmichael?
Enacted during the Civil War these United States statutes allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales.
What are the Morrill Land-Grant Acts (1862 Morrill Act)?
The period in American history that lasted from 1863 to 1877 following the American Civil War (1861–65) The era ended the remnants of Confederate secession and abolished slavery, making the newly freed slaves citizens with civil rights ostensibly guaranteed by three new constitutional amendments. The era's name also refers to the attempt to transform the 11 Southern former Confederate states, as directed by Congress, and to the role of the Union states in that transformation.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
the action of calling people together for a large formal assembly
What is Convocation?
American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, he was a dominant leader in the African American community. He was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the a leading voice for former slaves and their descendants.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period. These laws were enforced until 1965.
What are Jim Crow laws?
A theater character by Thomas D. Rice that is a racist depiction of African-Americans and their culture. The character name became a term that was used as an offensive term towards black people through to the end of the 19th century before it became associated with series of laws enacted in the late 19th century.
What is the Jim Crow persona?
During racial integration efforts in schools during the 1960's, this term was used to describe a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but nevertheless school segregation continued
What is de facto segregation?
American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).[1] Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to combating prejudice and violence, and the fight for African-American equality, especially that of women
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.
What is McCarthyism?
The term has since become a byname for defamation of character or reputation by means of widely publicized indiscriminate allegations, especially on the basis of unsubstantiated charges.
A set of federally funded college opportunity programs that support students from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds in their pursuit of a college degree. Grounded in the civil rights movement, the programs strive to ensure equal opportunity and equitable access to higher education along the educational continuum for underrepresented students, specifically those who are low income, first generation, and have disabilities.
What are the UMN TRIO programs?