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| An execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake and shooting, in order to punish an alleged person, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people, however large or small. This was often used against African-Americans. (3,446 Black people were lynched between 1882 and 1968) | Lynching |
| A major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri | Langston Hughes |
| The Harlem Renaissance was a phase of a larger New Negro movement that had emerged in the early 20th century having the most influential people in the black culture come out | Harlem Renaissance |
| Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. | Emmett Till |
| Was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional | Brown vs. Board of Education |
| This was an African-American revolutionary leftist organization. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. This party achieved national and international impact through their deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in U.S. politics of the 1960s and 70s, as the intense anti-racism of the time is today considered one of the most significant social, political and cultural currents in U.S. history. The group's "provocative rhetoric, militant posture, and cultural and political flourishes permanently altered the contours of American Identity." Founded in Oakland, California, by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton on October 15, 1966, the organization initially set forth a doctrine calling primarily for the protection of African American neighborhoods from police brutality. But their objectives and philosophy expanded and evolved rapidly during the party's existence. The organization's leaders passionately espoused socialist and communist (largely Maoist) doctrines, but the Party's black nationalist reputation attracted an ideologically diverse membership. Ideological consensus within the party was difficult to achieve, and some prominent members openly disagreed with the views of the leaders. | Black Panthers |
| She was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. She was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves. | Sojourner Truth |
| She moved with her parents to New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 4. In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a call from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School system. She is known as the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. She attended William Frantz Elementary School at 3811 N Galvez St, New Orleans, LA 70117. | Ruby Bridges |
| Loving v. Virginia was a Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States | Loving vs. Virginia |
| The was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were taken to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. A single voyage on this passage was a large financial undertaking, and they were generally organized by companies or groups of investors rather than individuals. | Middle Passage |
| Buying and selling human beings, often from Africa, by offering the enslaved person to the highest bidder. It a form of unfree labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776, and continued mostly in the South until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. The first English colony in North America, Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice established in the Spanish colonies as early as the 1560s. | Slavery |
| They were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in a Central High School in Arkansas in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch. | Little Rock 9 |
| The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. During the period 1955–1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Federal, state, and local governments, businesses, and communities often had to respond immediately to crisis situations which highlighted the inequities faced by African Americans. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-in (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities. | Civil Rights Protest |
| She was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., she helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. | Coretta Scott King |
| A form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history. The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. | Lunch counter sit-ins |
| the former practice of segregating black people in the US. | Jim Crow Laws |
| Maya Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. | Maya Angelou |
| An executive order from Lincoln, that freed slaves in most southern states | Emancipation Proclamation |
| the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. | Segregation |
| The official day slaves became free | Juneteenth |
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