Reconstruction
These were the years of Reconstruction
1865-1877
The Nadir is considered what time period?
1890-1920s
When was the Harlem Renaissance?
1919-1940
She performed to 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial and millions on the radio after she had been banned from performing in a "whites only" auditorium.
Marian Anderson
He was inspired by the Harlem Renaissance as a child and painted the Great Migration series
Jacob Lawrence
What major gains did Black Americans make during Reconstruction?
1. Education
2. Family/marriage
3. Politics
4. Churches
This Supreme Court Case in 1896 made segregation the law of the land.
Plessy vs Ferguson
This labor system during the Nadir and the Harlem Renaissance evolved around credit: whites own land, tools, supplies, seed and living quarters; Black laborers farmed the land
sharecropping
This sharecropper helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party after she and her friends were beaten by police for leaving the plantation to register to vote.
He painted this piece in as part of his Harlem Renaissance series
Aaron Douglas
He was America's first Black senator.
Hiram Revels
In 1896, over 130,000 Black people were registered to vote in Louisiana. Four years later, there are just ----__ thousand Black voters registered.
5000, or 5300
How did the young generation of the Harlem Renaissance characterisze themselves
Brash, independent, creative, "making America safe" for themselves
Organizers of the Birmingham Children's March were counting on what in order to make the event an effective display of the MCRM's nonviolent activism?
That white authorities would use violence against the children, and it would be televised to an audience that would be shocked by the violence, and start supporting the civil rights movement.
Who is known as "The Mother of the Blues"?
Ma Rainey
HBCU stands for what?
historically black colleges and universities
Besides extreme violence, these were ways the white South stopped Black people from voting. Name 3 ways.
Gerrymandering
Poll taxes
Grandfather clauses
Literacy tests
Failure of biracial Populism
He was a household name, founded the UNIA and advocated for the Back to Africa movement.
Marcus Garvey
These three events kicked off the Modern Civil Rights Movement
1. Brown v Board of Ed
2. Lynching of Emmitt Till
3. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Before she was a spy and a civil rights activist, she became famous performing her Banana Dance in France
Josephine Baker
This federal institution provided food, shelter, legal advice, and medical aid for destitute Black and white people of the South after the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau
These were the two kinds of lynchings perpetrated all over the US
Private and Festival
How do we characterize the developments of the HArlem Renaissance?
Cultural, creative production, African and American, Black pride and ingenuity, convergence of art, politics, culture, psychology and economics
This activist suffered discrimination in the male-dominated SCLC and become a champion of young people's voices in the civil right movement.
Ella Baker
What popular form of entertainment paved the pathway for Black creativity, entrepreneurship and fame during the Harlem Renaissance?
The Circus