Show:
"The New Negro"
(1915-1929)
Great Depression and New Deal
(1929-1940)
World War II
(1940-1945)
Cold War Civil Rights
(1945-1960)
The Second Reconstruction
(1960-1968)
100
Who authored the book, "The New Negro" (1925)?
Alain Locke
100
In 1936, for the first time in the history of the United States, the majority of African American voters supported a Democrat for president. Who was that candidate?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
Which NAACP leader authored "A Rising Wind," a book that critiqued the sustainability of global white supremacy in the aftermath of WWII?
Walter White
100
After decades of the NAACP chipping away at the doctrine of "separate but equal" through a variety of legal cases, what 1954 Supreme Court decision over public education finally overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?
Brown v. Board of Education
100
"Bloody Sunday," which is depicted in a recent Oscar-nominated film, occurred in which Alabama city?
Selma
200
What was the name of the Jamaican-born, Pan-African Black Nationalist whose organization, the UNIA, was incredibly popular among African Americans, especially in northern cities?
Marcus Garvey
200
What famous Depression Era event, stemming from accusations over the rape of two white women on a train in the South, turned into a decades-long national news story, legal battle, and competition between the NAACP and the CPUSA?
Case of the Scottsboro Boys/Scottsboro 9
200
In response to A. Philip Randolph's call for a "March on Washington," President Roosevelt signed E.O. 8802, which did what?
Banned racial discrimination in U.S. Defense Industries
200
At the age of 27, Dr. King was vaulted to national fame for his leadership role in what famous 1955-56 non-violent civil rights battle in Alabama?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
200
Who wrote the now-famous 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," which helped nationalize the Civil Rights Movements with the author's declaration that an "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
300
In "How it Feels to be Colored Me" (1928), Zora Neale Hurston uses what scene to illustrate her sense of when she "feels colored"?
Jazz/Night Club
300
What 1930s New Deal program/agency was responsible for funding numerous black writers and artists as well as creating a project to interview and preserve the memories of surviving African Americans who had once lived under slavery?
Works Progress Administration (WPA, various projects)
300
What school, originally founded by Booker T. Washington, trained Black combat pilots during the Second World War?
Tuskegee
300
In a televised address to the nation in 1957, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower noted, "our enemies are gloating over this incident and using it everywhere to misrepresent our whole nation," as part of his decision to take what emergency action in the South?
Sending Federal Troops to Little Rock, AR
300
This woman, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, testified about the terrors of voter registration in the state before the Convention's Credentials Committee in an attempt to seat black delegates from the state.
Fannie Lou Hamer
400
Which two northern cities became cultural epicenters of Black music and arts during the 1920s?
New York City (Harlem); Chicago (South Side)
400
Why did the Great Depression hit black communities in the North harder economically than white and other immigrant urban communities?
Economic (employment/relief) Discrimination and Spatial Segregation
400
What two-word civil rights campaign during WWII summarized the twin efforts of using the war to defeat fascism abroad and tear down Jim Crow at home?
"Double V" or "Double Victory"
400
While the famous Greensboro, NC Sit-In of 1960 popularized the "Sit-In" as a tool for nonviolent protesters (especially among students), the very first reported "Sit-In" occurred in what Kansas city in 1958?
Wichita
400
What two pieces of legislation, both passed under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and 1965, are considered to be the major achievements of the Civil Rights Movement and the Second Reconstruction?
Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act
500
Which two men co-founded "The Messenger," a Black socialist/worker's magazine?
Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph
500
How did landowners abuse FDR's Agricultural Adjustment Act to prevent sharecroppers from sharing some of the economic benefits of the New Deal?
Many did not know they were entitled to relief payments; Many were simply fired and had to leave land
500
Who were the two most prominent architects and members of the NAACP legal strategy under Walter White's leadership?
Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall
500
Although the Supreme Court overturned the legal enforceability of "restrictive covenants" in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), name two reasons why racial segregation continued in American cities.
Real Estate Practices/Informal Covenants; FHA-Insured Home Loans/Redlining
500
Who is this current congressman and icon of the Civil Rights Movement?
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)