Jim Crow Laws
Segregation
The subject of most of her writings
Lynchings
Booker T. Washington
This man was considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the time. He is best known for playing the trumpet.
Louis Armstrong
The neighborhood where many Black artists went to create their work.
Harlem
Many depictions of Black Americans during this time was based off these generalizations of entire group of people.
Stereotypes
The region of the U.S. that experienced the most lynchings.
South
He was the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard.
W E B Do Bois
He is considered the "father" of the Harlem Renaissance.
Alan Locke
The mass movement of Black Americans out of the south to northern cities.
The Great Migration
This group grew in membership during the Jim Crow era.
Klu Klux Klan
The was a common cause of lynchings of Black men.
He helped found the NAACP.
W E B Du Bois
Zora Neale Hurston
Musical style that combined classical instruments with upbeat rhythms.
Jazz
This is the term for a Jim Crow caricature that portrayed Black women as domestic workers.
Mammy
The term used to describe the investigative journalists during this time period
Muckrakers
He founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Booker T. Washington
She helped bring attention to lynchings and other injustices in her songs. She died from drug use.
Billie Holiday
One goal of the "New Negro" movement was to have full participation for Black Americans in society. What was a area where they wanted more participation?
Voting, Leadership, Education
The term "Jim Crow" comes a character in this type of performance.
Minstrel Show
The year that lynching became a federal crime.
2022
He believed that civil rights must be demanded.
W E B Du Bois
I was a major poet of the Harlem Renaissance. My work focused on both the joys and hardships of Black Americans.
Langston Hughes
The author of "The New Negro"
Alan Locke