Contexts

Question 1

The Great Migration

Answer 1

Movement of 6 million African Americans from rural southern states to urban areas of the Northern states between 1916-1970

Question 2

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 2

• Homer Plessy, a mixed race man, boarded a white only train car
• Plessy was charged, but argued that Judge John Howard Ferguson should dismiss the charges on the grounds that it was unconstitutional
• Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

Question 3

Plessy vs Ferguson ruling

Answer 3

Racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality (Separate but equal)

Question 4

White Supremacy

Answer 4

Belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society

Question 5

Marginalisation

Answer 5

Treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant

Question 6

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 6

Intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, fashion, literature etc. Centred in Harlem, Manhattan NYC, spanning the 1920s and 30s

Question 7

The Tragic Mulatto

Answer 7

• Stereotypical character
• Mixed-race person who is assumed to be depressed because they don’t fit in to the ‘white’ or ‘black’ worlds
• Depicted as a victim of a society that is divided by race

Question 8

Lynching

Answer 8

Killing people for an alleged offence without legal trial, especially by hanging

Question 9

Colourism

Answer 9

Alice Walker, 1982

Question 10

Nella Larsen

Answer 10

Mixed Race