MLK Notes

Question 1

Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act

Answer 1

protected workers’ rights to join unions and bargain collectively

Question 2

Walter White

Answer 2

From 1931 until his death he was secretary of the NAACP

Question 3

Paul Robeson

Answer 3

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Question 4

MLK’s college thesis

Answer 4

“A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman”

Question 5

W. E. B. DuBois

Answer 5

Demanded early on that African Americans should achieve not only economic parity with whites in the United States but full and immediate civil and political equality as well.
In 1961 he became a member of the American Communist party, and shortly thereafter he renounced his American citizenship. In the last two years of his life Du Bois lived in Ghana.

Question 6

Booker T. Washington

Answer 6

Born a slave. Under his leadership, the Tuskegee Institute became one of the leading African-American educational institutions in America. Its programs emphasized industrial training as a means to attaining self-respect and economic independence for black people, and Washington continued to advocate self-help and self-sufficiency.

Question 7

Red Summer of 1919

Answer 7

black migration to urban north and competition for jobs

Question 8

Scottsboro Case

Answer 8

Most famous race case: Nine black youths are indicted in Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women.
Led to 2 Supreme court decisions.
Rights to fair trial and sit on juries

Question 9

Niagara movement

Answer 9

Founded by WED DuBois in 1905. Forerunner to the NAACP.

Question 10

NAACP Leaders

Answer 10

James Weldon Johnson, Ella Baker, Moorfield Storey, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, Benjamin Hooks, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Julian Bond, and Kwesi Mfume.

Question 11

Marcus Garvey

Answer 11

“Back to Africa” movement. Establishes the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Question 12

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 12

1920s and 1930s

Question 13

Integration of U.S. armed forces

Answer 13

Harry Truman, 1948, after WWII

Question 14

Souls of Black Folks (1903) & Black Reconstruction in America (1935)

Answer 14

Books by WEB DuBois

Question 15

Nation of Islam

Answer 15

A black nationalist and separatist movement that contends that only blacks can resolve the problems of blacks.

Question 16

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 16

Declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional (1954)

Question 17

Rosa Parks in 1955

Answer 17

Refuses to give up her bus seat for a white a man. In response to her arrest Montgomery’s black community launch a successful year-long bus boycott.

Question 18

Montgomery’s buses are desegregated

Answer 18

1956

Question 19

1955

Answer 19

Emmett Till and Rosa Parks

Question 20

1957

Answer 20

SCLC formed & Little Rock Nine

Question 21

1960

Answer 21

Greensboro Four Sit-In & SNCC founded

Question 22

1961

Answer 22

Freedom Riders

Question 23

James Meredith

Answer 23

First black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy sends 5,000 federal troops after rioting breaks out.

Question 24

1962

Answer 24

James Meredith

Question 25

1963

Answer 25

Letter from Birmingham, March on Washington, 16th ST Baptist Church Bombing

Question 26

George Wallace

Answer 26

Segregationist governor of Alabama who promised to defy federal orders to integrate Alabama schools. In June, 1963, Wallace blocked two black students from entering the Univ. of Alabama.

Question 27

1964

Answer 27

Civil Rights Act of 1964, MLK receives Nobel Peace Prize, Sidney Poitier wins Oscar for Best Actor

Question 28

1965

Answer 28

Malcolm X assassinated

Question 29

1966

Answer 29

The Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

Question 30

Peekskill Riots

Answer 30

Anti-communist riots with anti-black and anti-Semitic undertones. The catalyst for the rioting was an announced concert by black singer Paul Robeson

Question 31

Symbolic Politics

Answer 31

black faces in high places