Ep.3, Ep.4

Question 1

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 2

Ida B. Wells

Answer 2

1883-First AA to file a discrimination lawsuit (denied seat on railroad car)

Editor of Memphis Free Speech

Office was burned + ran out of town after she went on a written crusade after 3 of her friends were lynched.

Helped found the NAACP.

Opposed to Booker T. Washington.

Question 3

WEB DuBois

Answer 3

First AA PHD Harvard

Sexist, elitist, arrogant,

Opposed Booker T. Washington

“ceaseless agitation”

Question 4

Civil Rights Cases

Answer 4

SC rules that 14th amendment doesn’t defend. equality in public spaces

Question 5

Voter suppression

Answer 5

• Literacy tests
• poll taxes
• understanding of US Con.

Question 6

Booker T. Washington

Answer 6

Tuskegee Institute (vocational school)

Believed in industrial education

Good w whites

Question 7

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 7

Octoroon denied seat

Miss. SC rules states can segregate public spaces

legitimizes “separate but equal”

Question 8

Wilmington, NC Massacre

Answer 8

Majority black thriving NC

AA’s elected- whites drive AA’s out of office

Question 9

“Nadir of Race Relations”

Answer 9

Time period when Congress had 7 Black men and 1 Senator (1875-1900)

Question 10

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Answer 10

Women group memorializing the “lost cause”

• Promoted fake history in school
• Built confederate monuments

Question 11

Revisionist history of slavery

Answer 11

Slavery is depicted in media as good

Jim Crow propoganda is spread

Question 12

Minstrelsy & Blackface

Answer 12

Minstrelsy - Pop entertainment mocking AA’s with blackface

Characterized with exaggerated features, language, and actions

Jim Crow- The dumb one

Question 13

Bert Williams

Answer 13

Wore blackface to mock racism

very successful, highest paid black actor

Question 14

Power of the image

Answer 14

Douglass believed photos were a way to reclaim your image

WEB. DuBois curated image show at Paris exhibition to show black life + culture

Question 15

WEB DuBois

Answer 15

First AA to earn PHD from Harvard

Sexist

Wrote “souls of black folk”
- double consciences
“we are in America but we are not a part of it”

Question 16

“New Negroes for a New Century”

Question 17

Role of music, art & performance

Answer 17

Ragtime and “coon songs” became basis of jazz, blues and rock

Question 18

Niagara Movement

Answer 18

Niagara movement: organization of African Americans who opposed Booker T. Washington, pushed agitation, main focus on lynching

Question 19

Pres. Woodrow Wilson

Answer 19

progressive thinker, white supremacist, segregated federal offices, showed Birth of a Nation at White House for the first ever film

“unreconstructed Southerner”

Question 20

Talented Tenth

Answer 20

Theory (Du Bois) that 10% of AAs would be leaders

Question 21

Springfield, Illinios

Answer 21

1908 - White mob riots after alleged rape

Creates NAACP

Question 22

NAACP

Answer 22

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

DuBois edited “the crisis”