AAs

Question 1

Who was Frederick Douglass?

Answer 1

Led abolitionist movement and president to Freedman’s Savings Banks

Question 2

Who is Blanche K. Bruce?

Answer 2

First African American senator to serve a whole term in office in 1881-85

Question 3

Who is Ida B Wells?

Answer 3

Co founded the NAACP and believed in political rights campaigns

Question 4

who was W.E.B. Du Bois?

Answer 4

Establishes NAACP and believed in political rights campaign

Question 5

Who was Booker T Washington ?

Answer 5

Disagreed with Du Bois. Promoted education and economic advancement to secure rights

Question 6

Who was A Phillip Randolph?

Answer 6

Led organised labour causes in 1920s to pressure the government

Question 7

Who was Marcus garvey?

Answer 7

Established black identity and consciousness

Question 8

Who was Martin Luther King?

Answer 8

Led SCLC, credited with Civil Rights Act

Question 9

Who is Malcom X

Answer 9

Believed in Separatism.

Question 10

Who was Jesse Jackson

Answer 10

Ran as presidential candidate in the 1980s. First Black person to get that high up in power. shows change of attitudes.

Question 11

What president opposed Martin Luther King day?

Answer 11

Reagan

Question 12

Who was the KKK?

Answer 12

White Supremacist group which was set up in 1867, led lynching campaigns. Resurges in 1920 and the 1950s

Question 13

What is the NAACP?

Answer 13

National Association for Advancement of Colored People set up in 1909. Focused of LEGAL challenges

Question 14

What is the Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 14

Organisation to support ex-slaves

Question 15

What is the Tuskegee institute ?

Answer 15

Set up by Booker T in 1881 to train teachers and promote education improvements

Question 16

What is the UNIA?

Answer 16

Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Garvey in 1914, first large organisation

Question 17

What is the SCLC

Answer 17

Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Founded in 1957. Led by Martin Luther King

Question 18

What is CORE

Answer 18

Congress of Racial Equality founded in 1942. Introduced freedom rides and challenged segregation

Question 19

What is the SNCC?

Answer 19

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee - established 1962

Question 20

What is the Nation of Islam?

Answer 20

Founded in 1930. Malcolm X worked with them to promote African heritage in the 1950s/60s

Question 21

What is the Black Panthers?

Answer 21

Founded in 1966 by Heuy Newton and Bobby Seal. Called for armed resistance and hostility to whites

Question 22

When was the 13th Amendment and what did it do?

Answer 22

1865. Formally freed the slaves

Question 23

When was the 14th Amendment and what did it do?

Answer 23

African Americans given citizenship. 1868

Question 24

When was the 15th Amendment and what did it do?

Answer 24

Given the vote to African Americans, 1870

Question 25

What did the 13, 14 and 15th amendments do between 1865-1870?

Answer 25

Formally freed the slaves,African Americans given citizenship, and Given the vote to African Americans,

Question 26

When did Brown Vs Board overturn Plessy V Ferguson?

Answer 26

1954

Question 27

What is Plessy V Ferguson and what year was it established?

Answer 27

Separate but Equal. | 1896

Question 28

When was MLK day introduced?

Answer 28

1983

Question 29

What was Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 29

Segregation laws, designed to keep black and white people separate, as they (plessy v ferguson) separate but equal

Question 30

When was the murder of Emmett Till?

Answer 30

1955

Question 31

Why was the murder of Emmett Till so significant?

Answer 31

It bought huge media attention. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.

Question 32

What way did African Americans migrate?

Answer 32

North

Question 33

Why did AAs head North?

Answer 33

They moved for better opportunities, they could farm which their were opportunities for and their was jobs which would let them provide for their families. BETTER WAGES

Question 34

why was the North better for AA's (racially)

Answer 34

Lynching publicly condemned, segregation encouraged black culture aka jazz club. Blacks with voting rights could become jurors making them sometimes more fair

Question 35

What was the aim of the New Deal?

Answer 35

To relieve human suffering and promote economic recovery after the WSC

Question 36

FDR equality quote

Answer 36

'we are going to make a country where no one is left out' | FDR= Good man

Question 37

What had been the impact of Hitler onto American?

Answer 37

Americans didn't want to end up like Germany where the segregation laws had often mirrored that of the segregation of Jews.

Question 38

How much did Truman help AA 1945-53?

Answer 38

'one man is as good as another as long as he is honest and decent and not a nigger or a chinaman' - but once in office he did more for AA than any other presidents

Question 39

During WW2, what had NAACP membership grew from, to...

Answer 39

50,000 - 450,000

Question 40

WW2 led to ..

Answer 40

jobs and opportunities for AAs