WWI
The conquering of one land over another for resources.
Imperialism
The relief, recovery, and reform plan to address the issues of the Great Depression.
New Deal
Promoting the defeat of Fascism at home and abroad.
Double V Campaign
Won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Jesse Owens
Period of racial violence across the U.S. in 1919.
Red Summer
Type of work that Black people sought out during WWI.
Factory Jobs
The unemployment rate of Black Americans at the height of the Great Depression.
50%
Black fighter pilots who flew mission in Europe and North Africa during WWII.
Tuskegee Airmen
President of the U.S. during the Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The belief that Black people globally should work together to secure rights.
Pan-Africanism
Position taken by the U.S. at the start of WWI.
Neutrality
Relief program that provided people with jobs during the Great Depression.
Works Progress Administration
Totalitarian rule that suppresses opposition in all areas of a society.
Fascism
Writer for the WPA Project, author of Story in Harlem Slang.
Zora Neale Hurston
The Tuskegee Experiment was studying the progression of this disease.
Syphilis
Law that allowed Black men to serve in WWI.
Selective Service Act
Zora Neale Hurston and others interviewed former enslaved people to make these documents under the WPA.
Slave Narratives
In the second wave of the Great Migration, Black families were leaving this type of work to move to northern cities.
Sharecropping
Marcus Garvey
Term used to describe the black denominations of religious institutions.
The Black Church
Black nurses helped treat people with this worldwide illness taking place during 1918.
Spanish Flu
Lobby group that advised FDR on the issues facing Black Americans.
Black Cabinet
Executive Order #8802 addressed this
Racial discrimination in national defense
Civil Rights group that promoted nonviolence as a means to secure civil rights.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Music style developed from jazz that uses improvisation.
Bebop