Jim Crow and WW2

Question 1

Jim crow era

Answer 1

1890s

Question 2

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 2

(1896) separate but equal; railcar

Question 3

Great Migration Causes

Answer 3

disenfranchisement; sharecropping; lynching; jim crow laws

Question 4

Marcus Garvey

Answer 4

Back to Africa movement

Question 5

race riots

Answer 5

(1919) chicago had most violence

Question 6

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 6

(1920s) A.A culture growth

Question 7

Langston Hughes

Answer 7

wrote like talked; difficult lives of working class

Question 8

Jacob Lawrence

Answer 8

portrayal of A.A. contemporary life; one of the first internationally recognized

Question 9

Claude McKay

Answer 9

expressed pain of ghetto

Question 10

Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 10

wrote about lives of poor Southerns and focused on folkways

Question 11

Paul Robeson

Answer 11

performance in Othello was highly praised

Question 12

Louis Armstrong

Answer 12

most important/influential musician

Question 13

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

Answer 13

one of America’s greatest composer

Question 14

Bessie Smith

Answer 14

highest paid black artist in world

Question 15

Jackie Robinson

Answer 15

1st A.A to play baseball

Question 16

WW2 War Front

Answer 16

segregated combat support groups

Question 17

WW2 Home Front

Answer 17

Double V (victory at home, victory abroad)

Question 18

Why participate in WW2

Answer 18

prove they are loyal to the country, defeat civil rights at home

Question 19

executive order 9981

Answer 19

(1948) Truman ended segregation in army