Civil Rights - African American Key Terms

Question 1

Abolitionists

Answer 1

Those who wanted to end slavery

Question 2

Affirmative Action

Answer 2

• Policy in 1960s

- Trying to give AA equality via positive action and quotas for education and employment

Question 3

Black Codes

Answer 3

-Southern state laws to free slaves

Question 4

Black Panthers

Answer 4

• Nationalist/Socialist organisation

- 1966-1982

Question 5

Black Power

Answer 5

-Movement by AA to gain power for themselves

Question 6

Busing

Answer 6

• Policy in which children in mixed race schools to help socially disadvantages AA children
• Promote racial integration

Question 7

CORE

Answer 7

• Congress of Racial Equality, 1942

- Protest against racial segregation in North

Question 8

Freedmen

Answer 8

-People released from Enslavement

Question 9

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 9

• 1965
• Care for former slaves via food, shelter
• 900 agents of this were faced with intimidation etc…

Question 10

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 10

• Stereotypical Black Man (discriminatory)

- Laws were responsible for controlling the South

Question 11

NAACP

Answer 11

• 1909

- first successful nationwide civil rights organisation to campaign for AA rights

Question 12

Nation of Islam

Answer 12

• 1930

- AA religious organisation

Question 13

Pan Africanism

Answer 13

-belief in need for unity and solidarity among Africans over world

Question 14

Sharecropping

Answer 14

• Farming systems
• White - provide land, tools
• Black - do labour

Question 15

Talented Tenth

Answer 15

• Publicised by W.E.B Du bois in 1903

- AA led by elite of educated men drawn from highest ability 10%