"Platanos"
This is the largest country in Latin America
What is Brazil?
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" This is an excerpt from what?
What is the 13th Amendment
This is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent.
What is Pan- Africanism
When someone believes you are "feeling them," they are often referred to as a ____ ?
What does the acronym S.N.C.C stand for?
What is The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
This country is credited with inventing the Steel Pan. (Steel Drum)
What is Trinidad Steel drums were invented on the island of Trinidad around the time of W.W.II. One can trace the roots of these instruments back to the African slaves who were placed on the island by Spanish and French plantation owners as early as the 16th century.
This African-American community is noted for being bombed by neighboring Whites due to its growing affluence and self-sufficiency?
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma (aka "Black Wall Street")
What Caribbean territory was free from colonization and was autonomous for only 8 days?
What is Puerto Rico Independent from July 17th 1898 -July 25th 1898
This agreement posed that blacks would not ask for the right to vote, they would not retaliate against racist behavior, they would tolerate segregation and discrimination, that they would receive free basic education, education would be limited to vocational or industrial training (for instance as teachers or nurses).
What is the Atlanta Compromise. This was later opposed by civil rights activist such as W.E.B. Dubois (Alpha Phi Alpha) who went on to form the Niagara Movement.
What famous author and civil rights activist wrote the novels "Their eyes were watching God" and "Moses man of the mountain"? Hint: Member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
The mission of this organization is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is The NAACP (1909)
This country gave birth to the man who would soon popularize the phrase "black power" "Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."
What is Trinidad Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian-American who became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement.
Members of this community are descended from escaped slaves and are settled in various parts of the Caribbean
Who are the Maroons
Sak Pase? Wah gwan? Que lo que? Que pasa? What do these phrases have in common?
What are ways to greet?
This Jamaican 1980 song popularized this quote; "None but ourselves can free our minds."
What is Redemption Song
“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Vicks, Robitussin, Tea, Ginger Ale and "Go lay down" are all what?
What is Bush Remedies?