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African Diaspora
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12/03/2014

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13th Amendment
Definition
abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
Definition
citizenship, equal protection
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15th Amendment
Definition
voting rights
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Reconstruction Acts (1867)
Definition
divided territory into 5 military districts; placed union troops in charge of voter registration (black men)
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carpetbaggers
Definition
northeners who moved to the south after the civil war
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scalawags
Definition
white southeners who supported the republican party and incorporated politically with black men and northern newcomers and supported reconstruction
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poor peoples campaign (1968)
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an effort to gain justice for poor people in the U.S. ; organized by MLKJ and the SCLC demanded economic and human rights
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Marcus Garvey
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founded UNIA; black africanism; african blood brotherhood was communist
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Rube Foster
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father of black baseball
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Jackie Robinson
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first black man to play baseball (1947)
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Terrell Law
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a law that banned blacks from voting for the democratic party in Texas
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Black Cabinet
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FDR's black group that kept him up on race relatons
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Scottsboro Boys
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9 black boys accused of raping and assaulting 2 white girls; court had lack of physical evidence
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Double V
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double victory
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Executive Order 9981
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desegregated armed forces
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Brown vs.Board of Education
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alowed intergrated schools
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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started because of Rosa Parks
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Albany Movement
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students of SNCC; set a pattern for learning opportunities
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Shirley Chisholm
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first black woman elected to congress
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Executive Order 8802
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prohibited segregation among federal employees
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Paul Robeson
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famous entertainer and civilrights activist
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Henry Wallace
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former vice president of Franklin Roosevelt; disagreed with Truman
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Fort Pillow
Definition
massacre of black soldiers
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Hiram R. Revels
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first black U.S. senator
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2nd KKK
Definition
anti black and immigrant
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convict lease system
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southern police arrested blacks and poors for minor offenses, sent to companies for profit
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social darwinism
Definition
survival of the fittest; justifies Jim Crow laws
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Buffalo Soldiers
Definition
black soldiers in the west after reconstruction
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Race Riots
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Tulsa: largest riot

Chicago: doubled the black population

Rosewood:

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Madame C.J. Walker
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first black woman millionaire in america for hair products
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Jack Johnson
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heavyweight boxer; prosecuted for bringing a prostitute from Pittsburgh to Chicago
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Great Migration
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relocation of blacks from the rural south to the north for jobs
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A. Phillip Randolph
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most important civil rights leader from the labor movement; organized both of the Marches on Washington
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Harlem Renaissance
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(1920's - 1930's) a literary artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity
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March on Washington
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(1941) proposedby A. Phillip Randolph because benefitted less from the new deal programs during great depression; FDR issues Order 8802
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New York City Draft Riots
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(1863) violence because of new laws passed by congress to draft men to fight in the american civil war
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Sherman's SpecialField Order #15
Definition
William T. Sherman; redistributed 400,000 acres ofland to newly freed black families; 40 acres and a mule; overturned by Andrew Johnson
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
formed to help black slaves and poor whites after the civil war (food, housing, schools, legal assistance)
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KKK
Definition
targeted republican leaders and blacks; win back white democratic power
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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(1896) U.S. supreme court upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the "seperate but equal" doctorine
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Ida Wells
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journalist; anti-lynching activist
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