AP AFICAN AMERICAN STUDIES UNIT 3 TEST Flashcards
black church denomination founded by Richard Allen and this denomination opened Wilberforce, Livingstone, and Clinton Colleges
AME
court cases that established the precedent of separate but equal as law of land
Plessy V Fergeson
movement of Black people from South to North and West between 1910-1970s (art of Jacob Lawrence)
Great Migration
poet of vernacular poetry and the poem “We Wear the Masks”
Dunbar
created by the U.S. Congress to provide resources like food, shelter, medical services for newly freed Black people, has a repository of resources
Freedmens Bureau
era following Reconstruction where blacks and whites were segregated in public arenas and voting restrictions like poll taxes and literacy tests were mandated
Jim Crow
photographer of the Harlem Renaissance whose career spanned many generations
James Van Der Zee
gave speech “How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping” and the National Baptist Convention in Virginia
Nannie Helen Burrough
anti-lynching journalist who wrote about
Southern lynching and forced to move to Chicag where she opened a newspaper
Ida B Wells
era of 1865-1877 when freed blacks had the ability to vote and empower themselves while also adjusting to freedom that was not solidified
reconstruction
opened a school in Greensboro NC for black students called Palmer Institute
charlotte Hawkins brown
freed blacks were arrested for minimal crimes like hanging out and not work and they were than hired out to build U.S. infrastructure like bridges, railroads, tunnels, and roads
convict leasing
of Special Field Order that was going to redistribute 400,000 acres of land to newly freed blacks it was revoked and the origin of (40 acres of and a mule)
fifthteen
first black college opened in the South in 1865
shaw
HBCU in Nashville that had a group of singers that popularized spirituals in the mainstream
fisk
the first black colleges were opened in this region
north
created in Mississippi and my home state
(SC) to restrict and in some cases give black people access to things. EX) no loitering or no intermarriage but allowed for land ownership
Black Codes
a major aim of freed person was family
reunification
1920-1930 that era where black Americans converged open a neighborhood to celebrate their arts
Harlem Renaissance
separation of races by legal mandate (black train car and white train car)
De jure segregation
renaissance educator, writer, and lawyer, and diplomat who wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
James Weldon Johnson
author of New Negro advocating for the Harlem Renaissance and the artistry of Black people to define themselves
Alain Locke
1919 but actually between 1917-1921 when racial tensions led to violence throughout the U.S.
red summer
book written by Alain Locke
new negro