Question | Answer |
Which Egyptian dynasty is taharka associated with? | 25th dynasty, the last African dynasty |
Who is taharka supposed to have helped according to your text | Helped Israelites fight the Assyrians |
Where was ancient Nubia located | Present day northern Sudan and southern egypt |
Nubia's history can be traced back to what time | 3100 bce |
Why was king ezana of Axum important | 1st to convert to Christianity which made Ethiopia the oldest Christian civilization in the world |
According to your reading what were the books of instruction | Advice to ensure personal success. Truth telling and fair dealing served as a teaching text for school to teach morals. |
Explain the mysteries schools six of them. Explain three | Heavens, lands, depths, secret word, pharaoh, teachers of wordsHeavens deals with astrology and astronomyLands deals with geographyDepths deals with geology |
According tithe article what was the advice about speaking | Only talk when you know your subject and wise words are rarer than precious stones |
An important text is the instruction of ptahhotep. What virtue does ptahhotep rate above all | Fair dealing higher than learning. you may tell a noble man by his good deeds |
What was the job of scribes | Scribes recorded history and taxes |
Why did schooling in ancient Egypt look different from schooling for children today | Schooling consisted more of trades rather than academics and reading. Also, one had to be privileged to go to school in Egypt. |
What did education in Egypt cover for girls? For boys? | Boys were taught by their fathers and were apprenticed out or could go into the army. Girls were taught by their mothers about domestic skills. |
teachers of the mystery schools | hersetha |
what are the names of three great west african empires | ghana, mali, songhay |
how did ghana become known as the "Land of Gold" | Ghana was the middle point where gold and salt was traded so it became very rich |
who was mansa musa | the ruler of mali during the 14th century who made pilgrimmages to mecca, the holy city for muslims, and gave away gold on the way which made it devalue |
what happened to abubakari | he disappeared in the ocean currents while exploring the niger river |
where was the university of sankore located | mali |
where were other universities established | timbuktu, gao, and jenne |
which ruler seized power from mali | sunni ali the Great |
under whose rule in songhay were improvements made | askia mohammed |
where was the city of timbuktu located? of what accomplishments could it boast? | in songhay, and timbuktu boasted a university and a large population |
Wo were the moors | A North African people who settled in morocco and was credited with getting Europe out of the dark ages |
Who was Gabriel Tarik | Tarik invaded the Iberian peninsula with 7000 soldiers and took over Spain and Portugal |
Describe schooling for the moorish people | Schooling was universal and there were 800 public schools, 70 libraries, and seventeen universities |
What were some of the advances they brought to Spain and Portugal | Silk industry, paved streets, street lights, rice, strawberries, ginger, dates, libraries and mosques |
What was found in Mexico | Huge stone heads resembling African people as well as clay sculptures and pictures of black warriors |
How was the age of artifacts determined | Carbon dating was used as well as carvings of dates on artifacts |
What is one theory how Africans got to America | The natural circular currents of the Atlantic could have brought Africans and abubakari to America |
We're ere eye witnesses or other evidence of Africans in America | Columbus talks about Africans in America in his journal, skeletal bones resemble Africans more than Americans, plants in America were native to Africa |
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Question | Answer |
Learning center of Africa today | Cairo |
At al-azhar how long long did a course of study last | 12-14 years |
Who tells us that that the first African immigrants to the Jamestown colony were referred to as servants, not slaves | Lerone Bennett |
Discrimination was based on blank not blank in Europe | Class not color |
First state to legalize slavery | Massachusetts in 1641 |
One of the first Europeans t enslave Africans | Portuguese |
European slave trade was also called the blank trade | Triangle |
A famous revolt was led by this man in French ruled Haiti in 1791 | Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Three ways to get freed from slavery | Buy freedom, voluntarily be granted freedom, escape to freedom |
Benjamin Banneker wrote a what | An almanac |
Two ways to resist | Violence and non violence |
Three violent protestors against slavery | Nat turner., John brown, Gabriel prosser |
Most famous non violent protestor of slaavery | Frederick Douglass |
How was Harriet Tubman freed | Escaped |
Organization designed to serve African community | Free African society |
african man and former slave who was the first death in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
African soldier who was singled out for special commendation for his bravery in the Battle of Bunker Hill | Salem Poor |
Africans served with this Naval Commodore during the War of 1812... this man was forced to admit the Africans' bravery after his victory at the Battle of Lake Erie | Matthew Perry |
blank of 1787 which prohibited slavery northwest of the Ohio River | Northwest Ordinance |
An African troop led by this man captured The Planter which was a Confederate gunboat | Robert Smalls |
How many africans received Medal of Honor during civil war | 16 |
how many africans received Medal of Honor from spanish american war | four |
This act of 1865 gave millions of acres of land to whites who went west | homestead act |
The Great Debate was between these two people over college curriculum for blacks | w.e.b. dubois and booker t washington |
Because of what amendments were african americans elected to office | 13, 14, 15 |
this required a payment that was usually more than the poor could afford to vote | poll tax |
this was a section of some voting laws that stated anyone who was able to vote in 1867 or was descended from someone who voted in 1867 did not have to pay the poll tax or pass the literacy test | grandfather clause |
these laws were a way of life in the South and remained until the civil rights movement of the 1960s | Jim Crow |
this man worked with alexander graham bell in 1876 and drew all the plans for the first telephone. He also invented the carbon filament for the light bulb that enabled it to burn for a long time | howard lewis latimer |
Who said that public education for all at. Public expense was, in the south, a negro idea? | W.e.b. dubois |
Blacks began establishing private schools between what years | 1860-1862 |
A slave who learned how to read while hiding in the back of his master's store | Thomas H. Jones |
armstrong felt that the white race was mentally and morally blank but blacks were mentally blank but morally blank | strong, strong, feeble |
the female teachers of the Hampton Institute had to do blank to internalize the value of hard work that they were supposed to transmit to their blank students | field work, black |
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute | Booker T Washington |
the Freedman's Bureau | Samuel Chapman Armstrong |
Main criticism of Hampton Institute came | W.E.B DuBois |
organized a march on Washington that never took place | A. Phillip Randolph |
Opened up the frontier and protected settlers from Native Americans | Buffalo Soldiers |
Two big white vs. black riots that broke out around the time of WWI were located where? | Tulsa, OK and Rosewood, FL |
African American soldiers in WWI that was named the 369th Regiment had soldiers that became known as the blank | Hellfighters |
Needham Roberts and Sergeant Johnson who were black recieved this honor which is the highest military honor in France | Croix de Guerre |
African American settlers who hitched up their wagons and headed West in the late 1870s | exodusters |
This African American man was renowned for his ability to ride a bronco. | Nat Love |
This man opposed the Tuskegee Institute model and published many pieces of literature as well as helped founding the NAACP | W.E.B. DuBois |
An African American who betrays his people to please whites | Uncle Tom |
Who got to determine educational policies in the U.S.? | states/colonies |
a lot of black blank were established even before the Freedman's bureau was created | schools |
ex slaves viewed literacy and education as blank and blank | liberation, freedom |
rich people who donated lots of money to various causes | philanthropists |
a philanthropist who wanted to build schools but didn't think blacks were on the same level as whites | Booker T. Washington |
this opened in 1901 in Buffal, NY and it was a showcase that highlighted new inventions like the use of electric lights | Pan-American Exposition |
This African American woman protested that the exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition did not include the work by important African Americans | Mary B. Talbert |
The assassination of which president happened at the Pan-American Exposition? | William McKinley |
The African American man who captured McKinley's assassin? | James Parker |
in 1919, this stood for the numerous race riots that took place in the U.S. | Red Summer |
One of the first labor organizations for blacks was the blank | colored national labor union |
The two countries that went to war over the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria. | Austria and Serbia |
a U.S. president who was considered to be racist by many people. | Woodrow Wilson |
This man had similar philosophies as Martin Delaney | Marcus Garvey |
The military reconstruction acts applied to this time period | 1860-1870 |
The first black cowboy movie | Harlem on the Prairie |
The slave that went with Lewis and Clark and Sacajewea and saved them from the Native Americans | York |
How many wars to wipe out Seminole Indians | three |
One of the greatest cowboys that lived who was black. | Bill Pickett |
When did the majority of African Americans stop voting for Republicans? | During the Great Depression |
A very influential member of the "Black Cabinet" | Mary McLeod Bethune |
African American cook who was aboard the battleship Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and received the Navy Cross | Dorie Miller |
The most famous African Americans that served in the air force during WWII | Tuskegee Airmen |
A unit of mostly African American soldiers who were charged with supplying ammunition and other supplies to the soldiers who were fighting on the front lines | Red Ball Express |
The first director of the blood plasma project of the American Red Cross in 1941 | Charles Drew |
A track star named blank and a boxing star named blank were African Americans during the Roosevelt administration that resulted in pride for the black population | Jesse Owens, Joe Louis |
the first Greek-letter organization for African American men on a college campus | Alpha Phi Alpha |
a Supreme Court decision that was a turning point in the modern civil rights movement | Brown v. Board of Education |
The head of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s and preached non-violence | Martin Luther King Jr. |
This woman was known for the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 because she wouldn't give up her front seat on a public bus. | Rosa Parks |
Three forms of non-violent protest | boycots, sit-ins, freedom rides |
The marchers who walked in protest with this man started the slogan of "black power" | James Meredith |
The Congress of the U.S. passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was the blank Amendment to the Constitution | 24th |
the first "Black" cowboy | John Wayne |
Most notorious black outlaw in the West | Cherokee Bill |
A western black con man | Ben Hodges |
Exodusters settle in these three places | Langston, Taft, Nicodemus |
W.E.B. DuBois and advocated blacks to get any education they wanted and led to the NAACP | Niagara Movement |
One of Washington's famous sayings | "Go along to get along" |
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Question | Answer |
How did the first Africans come to America? | They came as indentured servants. For free Africans at that time, the laws were the same for everyone for 40 years |
How were indentured Africans and Europeans treated? | They were treated as equals and equally oppressed no matter what color their skin. |
How did the European colonists describe themselves | They saw themselves as being English or Christian |
What was an asiento | Rights or permission to trade granted by the pope |
Wh did las casas suggest that the native Americans should be replaced with Africans | Because the native Americans were either killed off or ran away and Africans could work in hot weather because they were used to it. |
How did early forms of enslavement in Greece, Rome, and Egypt differ from the European form of chattel slavery in American colonies | Ancient slavery had nothing to do with race. It was justified by rules of war or if someone was a criminal. English form of slavery dealt with race and was very harsh |
What was the triangle trade and why is it referred to as that name | The trade between u.s. Europe and Africa which created a triangle shape so it was called triangle trade. This trade brought Africans to America as slaves and took goods to Europe. |
What was prejudice based on from around 1612 to 1660 in the American colonies | It was based on socioeconomic class and not color |
Why were only Africans enslaved? | Africans were perceived to be strong, better resisted to heat, had farming skills, and couldn't protest. |
Why did Africans allow enslavement to happen? | They practiced domestic slavery so they didn't think they would be treated to poorly. Also, Africans wanted guns and iron pots from Europe. Europeans caused wars between Africans to get POWs. |
Who was las casas | He traveled with Columbus and was a priest and may have wrote Columbus's journal because Columbus may have been illiterate. |
What does Bennett mean by "equality of oppression?" | Indentured servants were equally treated badly no matter the color of the skin and beaten equally |
What did the slave codes forbid? | Meetings of large groups of Africans, being legally married, learning to read and write or own land were all prohibited so they could not rebel |
Who was toussaint L'Ouverture and what did he do that made him important in both the u.s. and African American history? | He led a successful revolt and gained independence for Haiti from the French making it the first independent country in the west which led to the French selling the u.s. the Louisiana purchase. |
What was seasoning of Africans | Splitting up cultures and languages of African people to prevent them from communicating with each other and rebelling against slave owners |
who was gabriel prosser? denmark vesey? | African American men who tried to lead slave revolts but were betrayed. Prosser was in Richmond and Vesey was in Charleston SC |
Why didn't George Washington and the colonists want enslaved Africans to fight in the Revolutionary War? | Afraid they would run away, afraid they didn't know how to fight, and whites didn't want to fight alongside black men |
Who were Benjamin Banneker and Phillis Wheatley? | Banneker wrote the almanac, designed Washington D.C., was a mathematician and wrote Jefferson about why slavery is okay. Wheatley wrote the first book about an African and was the second book published in the U.S. |
Who was Dred Scott? | An enslaved man who tried to sue for his freedom but "He didn't have the right to sue" according to the courts |
Who was Lord Dunmore? | He was part of the British governement who recruited Africans for the British army during the Revolutionary War |
Explain how some people resisted enslavement? | Violent revolts led by Prosser, Vesey, and Brown as well as non violent methods like newspapers, the underground railroad, and abolitionist speeches |
had abolitionist newspapers | Russworm, Cornish, Douglass |
started the abolitionist newspaper called, "The North Star" | Fredrick Douglass |
What was the three-fifths compromise? | The agree about how slaves counted toward a state's population. The slaves were counted as 3/5 of a man for voting purposes. |
What was Lincoln's position on emancipation for enslaved Africans? | Lincoln felt slavery was morally wrong but he did not want to decide whether the slaves should be free or not. He drafted the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. |
Explain the term abolitionists and name two | Abolitionists were people working to end slavery like John Brown and Fredrick Douglass |
What was the reason for the Civil War? | To save the union according to Lincoln but it was also about slavery. |
What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | A document written by Lincoln that freed all enslaved Africans in confederate states |
What was the Freedman's Bureau designed to do? | To address economic and social needs and aid the poor by setting up schools and hospitals. They also helped people find a way to make a living and DISTRIBUTE LAND! |
Why did the northern states abolish slavery? | Economic changes because the north was mostly industry while the south was agricultural so slaves weren't as needed in the north. |
Which college was the only one established by the U.S. government for blacks? | Howard University |
Who was Jim Crow? | Practice of discrimination against blacks and it was not a person, it was just a black code. |
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments provide for? | Hope that African Americans would gain equality. 13th outlawed slavery, 14th gave equal protection under the law and citizenship, 15th gave African American males the right to vote |
What were the "black codes"? | Laws that replaced slave codes and segregated blacks from whites after the civil war. Could not own gun or property, prevented voting, could be arrested for insulting whites. |
Name three people who traveled West and what they did? | James Beckwourth - discovered a pass through the Sierra Nevadas. Jean Baptiste Du Sable founded Chicago. Mary Fields was the first female post carrier and delivered mail in the West. |
Who was Martin Delaney? What did he advocate? | African American physician and commisioned officer in the army who advocated blacks going back to Africa because he felt that Africans would never have equality in the U.S. |
What was Reconstruction? | After the civil war when the south was being rebuilt. Reconstruction Acts were written and Freedman's Bureau was supposed to distribute land. |
What group established a school for African American children in 1774? | The abolitionist society in Philadelphia |
Who were the African Americans who protected the settlers in the West? | 9th and 10th calvaries and 24th and 25th infantries |
Who was John Alvord? | The superintendent of the freedman's bureau and documented all the schools in the south and all were under his jurisdiction. |
How did African Americans feel about education? | African Americans were eager to learn and wanted to learn to keep from being cheated in contracts and so they could read the Bible |
What were "native schools?" | Schools founded and maintained by ex-slaves |
Name two places where schools for African American children were established even before the Civil War? | Fort Monroe, VA in 1861 and New Orlenas in 1860 |
What were northern missionaries surpries to find when they went to the South? | They found schools that were already established. |
Where was the earliest black school established according to historical records? | Savanna, Georgia in 1833 |
There were 3 basic types of schools that were established for sourthern African Americans just after the Civil War and they were? | common (basic skills), trade, Normal (taught teachers) |
What was Black Wall Street and what happened to it? | An area in Tulsa, OK called Greenwood that was a very prosperous black area. In 1921, whites burnt down homes and business because of a false accusation against a black man by a white woman. |
Explain what is meant by the Red Summer? | The Red Summer refers to the summer of 1919 because the largest number of race riots in America took place during that time (at least 25). |
Who is Ida B. Wells? | A journalist who spoke out against the mistreatment of African Americans and wrote the "Red Record" in 1895 which documented lynching. |
Who said that "public education for all at public expense was, in the South, a Negro idea? | W.E.B. DuBois |
What was the debate about education between DuBois and Washington all about? | Washington believed blacks should be educated in trade skills. DuBois thought blacks should be educated in all around academics. Washington was an accomodationist and he believed in "go along to get along" while Dubois wanted equal rights right away. |
What publication established DuBois as an opponent of Washington? | "The Souls of Black Folk" |
What is the term for "education at public expense?" | Universal education |
What were Sabbath schools? | Schools created for ex-slaves, which encouraged literacy and met on Sundays. |
How was "universal schooling" supported? | tax money |
The record of schools that was kept by the Freedman's Bureau reported on what types of schools? | Native schools |
first indentured servants settled where | jamestown |
for blank years, indentured servants were equal under the law | 40 |
two tribes that were brought to the U.S. and they had to be separated | Fulani and Mandingo |
Another name for the triangle trade | middle passage |
the 14th ammendment also does what | due process |
black codes are equal to | jim crow laws |
the two things that booker t and web dubois argued about | political rights and education |
started the UNIA and Black Star Line and taught about working together and made soup kitchens | Marcus Garvey |
Who was John Chavis and what did he do? | Opened a school in Raleigh, NC where he taught whites during the day and blacks at night. |
Name at least four of the earliest colleges that were established. How many private black colleges were established? | Chaney was the 1st and in PA. Lincoln was the 2nd and in PA. Wilberforce was in Ohio. Berea was in KY. Howard was in 1867 and was established by the government. Shaw University was the first to have a grad and medical school. 24 private black colleges were established. |
Where was the first black land grant college established? | In Mississippi at Alcorn College |
What happened to stop the progress made by African Americans to establish free public education in the South? | White planter groupos regained control over government and stressed low level taxes, opposed compulsory education and blocked out the passsage of laws that would strengthen education |
Who was samuel Armstron and what was his "Hampton Idea?" | Northern philanthropist who made a plan to place African Americans in a subordinate position by disenfranchising them while preparing them for the lowest forms of labor that didn't interfere with white jobs. |
Who was Charles Drew? | Physician established blood banks, found a way to store blood plasma in England |
Hampton Institute was first founded as what kind of school? What did it become later? | It went from a trade to normal to University school |
Explain Hampton's structure as a normal school including its curriculum | 2-3 years of education, didn't offer bachelor's degree. Equivalent to 10th grade education |
At what level of education did students graduate? | high school |
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Question | Answer |
What was the KKK? | A terrorist group that targeted African Americans, successful farmers, and politicians. It was started by Nathan Bedford in Pulaski, TN. |
What was Plessy v. Ferguson | A supreme court case where Plessy was black and wanted equal protection under the law and the courts upheld separate but equal segregation. The case involved segregated train cars. |
What was the Harlem Renaissance? | A time in NYC in the 20s when black intellectuals and artists gathered which created a boom in Harlem's culture and reputation. |
Two clubs established during the Harlem Renaissance? | Cotton Club and Savoy |
Who was Langston Hughes? Zora Neale Hurston? | They were both stars during the Harlem Renaissance and both were writers. Hurston wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" which is a famous book. |
Where was the Journal of Negro Education founded? | Howard University by Carter G. Woodson in 1932 |
When were the NAACP and the National Urban League founded? | NAACP in 1909 which fought for equal education opportunities and fought discrimination. NUL - 1911 |
Explain McLaurin v Oklahoma State Regents case. | Supreme court case in 1950 that dealt with higher education and McLaurin was granted admission to the Oklahoma University to which he was originally denied. |
What did the lawsuit brought by the NAACP against the Maryland Law school result in? | In 1935, Murray had to be admitted to the school or a whole other school had to be built just for him according to the courts. |
Explain what happened in the case of Sweatt v Painter? | This dealt with a Texas Law school and successfully fought segregation. Sweatt won and a new law school was created for blacks. (1950) |
What did cases like the ones involving Sweatt, McLaurin, and Murry pave the way for? | Brown v Board of Education in 1954 |
What did Governor George Wallace do at the University of Alabama? | Wallace stood in the doorway to prevent Medgar Evers from entering. Kennedy sent a federal guard to get Evers in the school. |
Under what circumstances did James Meredith attend the University of Mississippi? | He had to be escorted by federal marshalls and national guard troops to get into school and go to classes in 1962. |
What was the significance of the arrest of Rosa Parks? | She stood up for her rights and the modern civil rights era began after her arrest. The Montgomery bus boycott also started after the arrest. |
Explain some of the techniques for non-violent protest. | Boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides |
What does "Bloody Sunday" refer to and why did it happen? | There was a march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama for African American voting rights and they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge and were pushed back by police and horses. |
In the 1960s, there were two major movements for equal rights for African Americans. Both had leadership. Explain what they were and the leaders | Black Panthers who were militant. MLK Jr. who was non violent and influnced by Gandhi |
Who were the Black Panthers? | A group founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seal in 1966 that promoted racial pride and wanted to help urban ghettos and created a ten point plan to promote blacks |
Where did the term "Black Power" originate? | Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in a speech at Howard University |
Explain what Cointelpro means? | A forceful campaign against the Black Panthers led by the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover |
Explain the position of Louis Farakahan? | Son of Elijah Mohammed and took his spot as the leader of the Nation of Islam. |
Who was Elijah Mohammed? | Leader and founder of the Nation of Islam |
Who was Malcolm X? | A spokesperson for the nation of Islam |
Explain the Brown v. Board of Education decision. | Overturned the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson - established that separate was not equal. It was rejected at the state level by Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia |
Who was Thurgood Marshall and why was he important in the human rights struggle? | Chief lawyer for the NAACP and first African American Supreme Court Judge |
Explain Brown II | Gave schools the right to decide how fast to integrate schools. |
Why was Brown v Board of Education different from Sweatt v Painter and McLaurin v Oklahoma | it dealt with elementary ed instead of higher ed |
What is the significance of Central High School in Little Rock in terms of black history? | The Little Rock 9 who were supposed to go to high school there were denied. This forced the desegregation of schools and drew media attention to the civil rights movement. |
How did schools avoid desegregation? | refused to, private schools were set up for only whites, whites left the area called "white flight" |
What happpened in theGreen v County Board of New Kent County in 1963? | Dealt with freedom of choice. County Board argued that Brown II did not constitute with the school boards responsibility |
What was the black studies movement? | Blacks demanded college black history courses in schools. |
What was the problem with desegregation of schools according to the readings? | Led to new forms of segregation like tracking. Did not provide equity. Did not involve blacks and define it. |
How did the Regents of the University of California v Bakke affect black college students? | It was a quota system for minorites and it was illegal so other cali schools stopped affirmative action. |
According to the article, how are schools defined? | As a social system because they are made of tasks and individuals which creates an organization |
What is meant by the external environment | The classroom environment that students see each day. Parents and Regents are examples |
What is meant by the internal environment? | The feeling of the students about learning and how fair they felt the schools were on the inside. Teachers are an example |
Explain what does the "culture" of a school mean? | How schools behave and how the environment functions. |
Explain curriculum and why it is considered to be political? | Political because they are based on human decisions about what will be taught. |
What is meant by the hidden curriculum? | Things that are chosen not to be taught like the underlying meanings of the curriculum. |
What is the Bell Curve? | Controversial theory that tried to justify racism through intelligence. |
What is affirmative action? | An attempt to level the playing field and give a slight advantage to women and minorities. |
Explain affirmative action policies that were instituted in 1964, especially the provisions of Title VI. | Response to 1964 Civil rights act and it began as a plan to equalize education. |
What does the legislation "No child left behind" provide for? | The reauthorization of the ESEA and provided for charter schools, testing every year for AYP, school vouchers. |
What were the five concerns in the interview with the principal in the article? | lack of ethnical education, parental involvement, lack of funding, technology, role in politics. |
Explain the difference between the Afrocentric Curriculum and the Multicultural Curriculum. | Afrocentric amended school curriculum cultural imbalance whereas multicultural curriculum prepared and promoted diversity in the environment. |
What types of schools have been established because of the frustration of African Americans at the schooling system? | Independent black schools and private religious schools. |
What is the United Negro College Fund (UNCF)? | A scholarship program for black students set up in 1944 to enhance education in HBCUs. It provides technical assistant and aides to HBCUs. |
What is redlining? | Restricting mortgages in certain areas or the practice of denying fincancial services for specific groups of people. |
What are some ways in which blacks still face economic or social inequality? | unfair laws like possession of drugs consequences much worse for minorities, police brutality, racial profiling |
Got the Little Rock 9 ready for school on their first day. | Daisy Bates |
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Question | Answer |
how many civil rights acts were passed in the 1800s? | four |
how many civil rights acts were passed during the 1900s? | three |
Lawyer who worked for the NAACP on the Brown v Board of Education case? | Thurgood Marshall |
First African American member of the Supreme Court? | Thurgood Marshall |
The Civil Rights Act of blank was known as the Fair Housing Act | 1968 |
In this year, President JFK introduced the term blank | 1961, affirmative action |
In this case in this year it was ruled that a percentage of city contracts could not be set aside for minorites. | Croson v Richmond in 1989 |
In these cases in this year, white students claimed that their civil rights had been violated by the university's point system used for entrance to undergraduate school and law school. They claimed that the system gave African Americans an unearned advantage and violated their rights. | Gratz and Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003 |