3.3: How We Got Here- Lifting “The Veil” - Vocabulary
People
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Malcolm X Movie / Black Panther Graphic Novel (Combined Category)
100
This specific form of slavery in which the children of enslaved people are automatically considered to be slaves themselves. This system contributed to the creation of racial categories in colonial America.
What is Chattel Slavery?
100
The title character of the movie we are watching, he rose to national prominence as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam, advocating for Black nationalism and pride before later leaving the NOI to pursue a broader human rights agenda. He was assassinated in 1965 at the age of 39, a controversial figure but a celebrated symbol of Black empowerment and racial justice.
Who is Malcolm X?
100
The African American story starts when enslaved Africans were forced to cross this Ocean with European explorers.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
This member of Malcolm X's family was killed when Malcom was just a child.
Who is his father? (Earl Little)
200
A network of anti-slavery activists who operated to provide safe hiding spaces and routes of travel for self-emancipated people who were fleeing to places where slavery was not legal so they could begin life anew. This included Canada, Mexico, and for a period of time, the Spanish-controlled colony of Florida.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
She was famous for her daring leadership in helping to free enslaved people and bring them to safety through a network of activists called the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
By 1536, Esteban the Moor and others had walked 15,000 miles—long before these two famous explorers who were sent by Thomas Jefferson in the 1800s.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
200
This was Malcolm X's birth name before he changed his last name to "X" to symbolize the African tribal name lost due to slavery.
What is Malcolm Little?
300
A time where public institutions actively established racial segregation. Despite the promises of the 14th and 15th Amendment that Black people would enjoy the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship, segregation created an explicitly tiered version of citizenship.
What is the Jim Crow Era?
300
This Academy-Award winning actor portrays the title character in the movie we are watching for class.
Who is Denzel Washington?
300
This was the first British settlement in what would become the United States.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
300
The Black Panther Party was started in this California city.
What is Oakland?
400
Laws that created restrictions on Black people’s abilities to own property, conduct business, lease land, and move freely through public spaces. These regulations worked to keep separate the established white society from the lives of Black people.
What are the Black Codes?
400
The first African-American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard and the first president of the NAACP, this person also outlined the theory of "double consciousness."
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
400
This African explorer, who may be the first African to step foot in the Americas, helped Cortez take Mexico, then searched California for gold.
Who is Juan Garrido?
400
These two individuals met in college and started the Black Panther Party.
Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
500
A federal agency that operated in the years following the U.S. Civil War to support recently freed communities of Black people in the southern United States. Despite early successes, the program was completely eliminated.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
This Academy-Award winning director is the director of the movie we are watching in class.
Who is Spike Lee?
500
This person was once enslaved, but through labor he earned freedom and eventually owned both black slaves and white indentured servants, showing how early slavery worked before it hardened into race-based bondage.
Who is Anthony Johnson?
500
The movie is based on the book titled The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by this famous black writer.
Who is Alex Haley?