Historical Events
An important movement for culture, intellect, and Black pride throughout the early 1920s stapled in New York City. This laid a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement to take off.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
An ideology that puts to the forefront Black pride, cultural togetherness, and economic self-sufficiency.
What is Black Nationalism?
Who was Malcom X?
The unearned advantages certain people have that puts them at the top of the hierarchy compared to other races and groups of people, where its influence spreads far beyond the United States borders.
What is white privilege?
The oldest civil rights organization in the United States meant to push the success of marginalized peoples.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
They were the first Latin American country to rebel against colonialism led by slave uprisings, inspired by the revolutions in Europe and America.
What was the Haitian Revolution?
An ideology that supports the union and solidarity between all those who come from the African diaspora. It is a belief that stretches beyond borders with the goal of collecting support from victims of various slave trades such as the Atlantic, Trans-Saharan, and the Red Sea.
What is Pan-Africanism?
A Black Feminist and political activist a part of the Black Panther Party and inevitably put on the FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.'
Who is Angela Davis?
The idea of relating overlapping social identities to systems that affect people in varying forms. This is typically used when discussing political issues around a large group of diverse peoples.
What is Intersectionality?
This organization - founded in 1966 - supported womanism, Black Power, and gun rights.
What was the Black Panther Party?
Held in August of 1963, it was the largest gathering for civil rights of its time, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. This was the final non-violent push towards passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What was the March on Washington?
A framework in understanding global and political events through the lens of African perspectives and cultures.
What is Afrocentrism?
The founders of the Black Panther Party.
Who was Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton?
A system that builds racism in all facets of life through legislation, politics, and individual entities.
What is Institutional Racism?
A movement and organization targeting police brutality, systemic violence, and American fascism.
What is Black Lives Matter?
A successful protest campaign held in Alabama against the racial segregation between Black and White people in public transportation. A cause for the boycott was the arrest of Claudette Colvin in 1955.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The idea of critiquing the existence of race - through the perspective of Black people - and believing it to be detrimental to the Black lived experience and how that condition manifests in our systems today.
What is Afropessimism?
A Black queer poet and civil rights activist most known for his 1953 novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain."
Who was James Baldwin?
A term that represents Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States. It highlights cultural identity, African heritage, and Southern roots.
What is Soulaan?
A collective of Black Greek life - meant to maintain the well-being and functionality of their affiliates - founded at Howard University by 5 chartering organizations: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
What is the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC)?
A series of uprisings in New York by queer and allied individuals who wished to fight back against discriminatory and violent police raids of various bars.
What were the Stonewall Riots?
An ideology that navigates the role of Black people through media and technology. An example of this exploration would be Black Panther, showing a Black and African country untouched by colonialism and in an advanced society.
What is Afrofuturism?
A Black trans woman who pioneered the American Queer movement, infamous for leading the charge during the Stonewall Riots.
Who was Marsha P. Johnson?
A concept that arose after slavery to describe the obligations of individual Black middle-class families to improve the status of their conditions for the community as a whole.
What is Racial Uplift?
A nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission of advancing the success and living conditions of African-American / Black women.
What is the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)?