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African American History
Fall 08 Final Review Cards
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/17/2008

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Term
Andrew Johnson
Definition

                Proclamation of amnesty

                Only Southern Senator that didn’t join the Confederation

                Supported the Freedman’s Bureau

Term
Rayford Logan
Definition
The Betrayal of the Negro
Term
T. Thomas Fortune
Definition

Black and White 1884

                Socialist analysis of race problem

                Jim Crowe Laws

                                Aimed at restricting black people

                                Gave poor whites a sense of status

Term
Henry McNeal Turner
Definition

BAck to Africa Proponent

Preacher

Term
Booker T. Washington
Definition

Tuskegee Institute 1881

Brownsville Incident 1906

Term
W.E.B. Dubois
Definition

Slater Fund

The Philadelphia Negro

The Souls of Black Folk

Niagra Movement

Term
Wlliam E. Walling
Definition
"The Race War in the North" 1908
Term
Marcus Garvey
Definition

U.N.I.A.

Back to Africa Movement

Black Star Line

Jamaican

Term
Jesse Binga
Definition

Binga Bank

Chicago

Term
Gunnar Myrdal
Definition
An American Dilema 1944
Term

Horance Clayton

St. Clair Drake

Definition

Job ceiling

BLack Metropolis 1945

Term

Branch Rickey

Definition

Jackie Robinson

"The Charles Thomas Story"

Term
President Truman
Definition

1947 US commission on Civil Rights

                To Secure These Rights – first time government went on record to say desegregation was a desired national goal

   1948 Executive Order 9981

     Prohibited segregation in military

Term
Charles H. Houston
Definition
Unsung hero
Term
Ellijah Muhammad
Definition

Ellijah Poole

Messenger of Allah

Term
C. Eric LIncoln
Definition

Black Muslims in America

Traditional

Term
Karl Evanzz
Definition

The Judas Factor; The Plot to Kill Malcolm X

                Revisionist

Term

Huey P. Newton

Bobby Seale

Definition
Black Panther Party
Term
Freedman's Bureau Bill
Definition
Forty acres
Term
Sharecropping
Definition
De-Facto Slavery
Term
Freedman's Bank
Definition

From $3,300,000 to $31,000

Panic of 1873

Term
Black Reconstruction
Definition

Black Codes

                The Republican Party and Blacks

                Black Political Party

                End of Black Reconstruction

               

Term
Brownsville Incident 1906
Definition

Buffalo Soldiers

Fight between black soldiers and white citizens

Soldiers dishonorably discharged

Term
Slater Fund
Definition
Increase number of black teachers
Term
New York City 1900
Definition

Black stabs white police officer

Whites attack blacks

Cause was true

Term
Atlanta 1906
Definition

Rumor that black men rape white females

Whites attack blacks

Gunfire exchanged

Cause was false

Term
Springfield 1908
Definition

White woman said that black man sexually assaulted her.

Man escaped before mob formed

Most blacks were forced to leave

Cause was false

Term
Fall of Niagra Movement
Definition

Internal Factors - Dubois vs. Trotter

External Factors - BTW used influence

Term
National Negro Committee 1909
Definition
Some wanted BTW support; others didnt
Term
NAACP
Definition

1910

Mission was to do away with segregation

Term
National Urban League
Definition

1910

Help blacks adjust to city life

Train black social workers

Term
Blacks in the Military, WWII
Definition

369th, 370th, 371st, 372nd

Firist sent to Europe to fight

Term
August 7, 1918
Definition

John J. Pershing

Told French how to treat blacks

Term
Red Summer 1919
Definition

Race riots in 26 cities

Whites didn't like blacks' urban presence

Black defense activities

Term
Independent International Black Economy
Definition
Africa > US > Central America and South America > Africa
Term
Downfall of Marcus Garvey
Definition

Personal - Looked down on whites and lighter blacks, secret meeting with KKK, not good businessman

External - Went to jail, deported to Jamaica

Term
Charlie Thomas Story
Definition

Black player on Ohio college team was denied a room in a hotel.

Branch Rickey made a commitment to bring racial fairness to baseball.

Term
1948 Executive Order 9981
Definition
Prohibited segregation in military
Term

Civil Rights before Brown

Definition

1946 - Interstate bus travel

1948 - Outlawed "Restrivtive Covenants"

1950 - Railroad dining cars

Term
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Definition

Lasted 12 1/2 months

November 1956

Term
Traditonal Nation of Islam
Definition

W.D. Fard was God in humn form

God is black; whites are devils

Fard returned to Heaven in 134

Term
Revisionist Nation of Islam
Definition

Fard was a con artist

Term

Black Panther Party

Definition

Huey P. Newton

Bobby Seale

Term
The Lumpen-Prletoriat and Black Revolution
Definition

Underclass

Panther Police Patrols

 

Term
Free Huey Campaign
Definition

Peace and Freedom Party

Offered financial and emotional support

Term
Off the Pigs Campaign
Definition
War against the police
Term
Serve the People Campaign
Definition

Decentralize police departments

Free breakfast for school children

Free health clnics

Black liberation schools

Term
1619 - 2008
Definition

Total experience

389 years

Term
1619 - 1964
Definition

Slavery and Jim Crowe Segregation

345 year

Term
1964 - 2008
Definition
Progress 44 years
Term

1964 - 1978

 

Definition

Affirmative Action

14 years

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