CJ AAlit

Question 1

Colorism

Answer 1

Discrimination based on skin color and attaching social value to shade of skin. Term coined by Alice Walker

Question 2

Griot

Answer 2

West African storyteller, historian, and musician. Responsible for Blues music in America

Question 3

Phyllis Wheatley

Answer 3

First published African American poet (wrote Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral). Born in West Africa and sold into slavery at 7. Bought by a family in Boston.

Question 4

James Weldon Johnson

Answer 4

Leader of NAACP; first executive secretary (operations officer). Writer and poet during Harlem Renaissance.

Question 5

Chattel

Answer 5

Form of slavery where people are regarded as personal property of the owner and bought and sold as commodities.

Question 6

Michelle Alexander

Answer 6

Civil rights advocate and writer. 2010 book The New Jim Crow.

Question 7

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Answer 7

American folk song about following the Big Dipper. Used by the underground railroad so slaves didn’t get lost when heading north.

Question 8

Willie Lynch

Answer 8

Slave owner who gave a speech in 1712 to other slaveowners telling them he figured out how to control slaves through colorism

Question 9

Harriet Jacobs

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African American writer who escaped slavery and became an abolitionist. She wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Question 10

Booker T. Washington

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Dominant leader in the early 20th century African American community. Set up National Negro Business League. First leader of Tuskegee Institute.

Question 11

Malcolm X

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One of most influential civil rights activist with Nation of Islam. Eventually disagreed with teaching of NOI. Assassinated by NOI.

Question 12

Olaudah Equiano

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Important African in London in late 1700s. Led anti-slavery movements and helped pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ended African slave trade for Britain and colonies

Question 13

Brown vs. Board of Education 1954

Answer 13

Landmark Supreme Court case ruling segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896.

Question 14

W.E.B Du Bois

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Leader of the Niagara movement and a cofounder of NAACP. He supported equal rights and political representation for African Americans

Question 15

Sojourner Truth

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Female abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Most famous speech was Aint I a Woman

Question 16

Angela Davis

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Political activist and leader of Communist Party USA; worked closely with Black Panthers and is an advocate of prisoner’s rights.

Question 17

Marcus Garvey

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Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association and Black Star shipping line. He influenced many black leaders with his teachings. Enemy of W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 18

David Walker

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African Ameriican abolitionist from Boston. Book was an Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World

Question 19

NAACP

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 20

Langston Hughes

Answer 20

Leader in Harlem Renaissance and helped create Jazz. Musician and poet.