Harlem Renaissance
What types of art did people in Harlem use to “revive” African American culture?
Paintings, Music, Dance, Literature
What was the Great Migration
African Americans moving from the south to the north
Self Defense
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Government agency to help freed slaves after the Civil War
A place where people would gather to party and listen to jazz
Nightclubs
Which early Civil Rights leaders was against African Americans joining the Army?
WEB Du Bois
Brown v Board of Education
What did the 13th Amendment do?
What does "Renaissance" mean?
Rebirth/Revival
Why was the summer of 1919 called The Red Summer?
A large amount of Race Riots throughout the country
Why did Minnijean Brown get expelled from school?
1. Chilli Incident
2. Fighting with students
3. Standing up for herself
Why did the country need to be reconstructed?
Ending of the Civil War and slavery in the south
Where did Jazz Music originate?
New Orleans
What event sparked the Chicago Race Riots of 1919
Black teenager drowns at a white only beach from stones getting thrown at him
Who were the TWO founders of the Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton
Define Sharecropping
A system of exploitation that gets former slaves in a cycle of debt by making them share a large portion of their crops to a land owner.
How did the Harlem Renaissance show cultural identity through art?
Black experiences influencing the art
What were 2 reasons African Americans moved to Northern Cities
3 possible:
Escape Racism
Better Jobs/Pay/Housing
To help the war effort in factories
What does Civil Rights mean? (Define each word)
Civil - of or relating to citizens
Rights - legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way.
There are 3 main ideas in the Lost Cause Myth. Name at least 2 of them
Confederates were heroes
Enslaved People were Happy
Slavery was not the cause of the war