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Harlem Renaissance
Jim Crow
Reconstruction
Great Migration
Black Organization
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The name of Langston Hugh's most famous poem in which he discusses what happens to black folk's not being able to realize their full potential due to oppression
What is a Dream Deferred?
100
This is the three step origins of the word Jim Crow.
What is "character, slur, law"
100
The numbers of the three reconstruction amendments.
What are 13, 14,15th?
100
Roughly 5 million African Americans migrated North and then West during the Great Migration, which started during what war in 1914?
What is World War I.
100
Two of the many goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
What are Back to Africa, Self-Empowerment, Black Businesses, Liberated Africa, Independent Black Country
200
Name one of the two most famous journals/publications of black people during the HR. OR Name the most famous place in Harlem with whites only audience/blacks only entertainers OR What were the three T's for black women to dance/sing in most white clubs?
What is The Crisis, and The Opportunity. What is Cotton Club What is Tall, Tan (super light skinned), and Terrific
200
In general Jim Crow is most associated with laws related to this.
What is segregation?
200
This abolished slavery, except for criminals.
What is the 13th Amendment.
200
The Great Migration is often considered one of the first mass protests of African Americans. They were protesting primarily because of these two reasons.
What are white violence and economic oppression/lack of opportunity.
200
This man is often considered the "father of the Civil Rights Movement" because he fought for anti-lynching laws, integration laws, and voting rights. He was the first black man to graduate from Harvard with a PhD and started the Niagara Movement as well as co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
300
Name two of the contributing factors of the Harlem Renaissance.
What are The Great Migration (newer and is some cases freer black communities in the North) and greater access to education, particularly college.
300
Jim crow started when reconstruction ended in 1877 and it didn't end until either of these decades.
What are the 1960's and 1970's.
300
This was supposed to guarantee African-Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment.
300
These three cities were the most popular destination for African-Americans during the Great Migration. Hint: One of them is very close to Camden.
What are NYC, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
300
The name of the speech in which Booker T. Washington advocated for accepting segregation and voting inequality of black people, and instead said black should learn trades, and through work and character, gain respect, and eventually rights from whites
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
400
This woman coined the term "Negrotarians" referring to white people who consumed black culture but who were not concerned with the rights and freedom of black people.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston (she wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God)
400
The Jim Crow Era was characterized by a massive amount of white violence and terrorism in order to maintain the white power structure. Violence most often occurred in these two forms.
What is lynching and race riots.
400
The 14th amendment stated this.
What is all people born in the U.S. are American Citizens (therefore they should have the same rights as any other citizen)
400
Even though black folk did have many more opportunities for advancement in the North in general, discrimination, white violence and this were still the norm in the North.
What is segregation.
400
The name of the "Black National Anthem" written by James Weldon Johnson.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing?"
500
The major contribution of the Harlem Renaissance or the major accomplishment of it was this
What is that it represented the first major body of work by African Americans who were WRITING THEIR OWN STORIES ABOUT THEMSELVES, DEFINING THEMSELVES, AND IN SOME CASES DEFINING WHITE PEOPLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE US. Prior to this, most literature about black people or humanity in general in the U.S. was from white perspectives.
500
This was the most famous U.S. Supreme Court Case that made segregation the official and acceptable law in the land and was started in Louisiana. It was declared in 1898.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson
500
Either name the first black governor, the first black senator, or explain why the Reconstruction Era was necessary.
Who is Pinckney Pinchback, Hiram Revels, or that the South, due to the destruction of the Civil War, needed to rebuild its government, economy, and Southern whites and African-Americans needed to be reincorporated into the American society.
500
The main pull factor of the Great Migration was the fact that many northern white men went to Europe to fight in WWI. This causes a huge shortage in this. Therefore companies went south and actually paid for black men and some women to move north.
What is labor.
500
This woman bit a police officer as he was trying to arrest her for protesting. She fought tirelessly against lynching and protested many times against segregation, particularly in buses and trains, by sitting in the "white people's section"
Who is Ida B. Wells.