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ISS 211C
African American History
22
History
Undergraduate 2
02/27/2008

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Term

3 phases of the African American Experience

Definition

Slavery and Racial Oppression (1789-1865)

Overt Black Struggle (1865-1965)

Post Civil Rights ear (1965-2008)

Term

Mannings Marables Theory as a black "intellectual tradition"

Definition

Corrective

Descriptive

Prescriptive

Term

George Washington Williams

Definition

(1849-1891)

First black man to write a scholarly book on the black experience

Term
W.E.B. Du Bois
Definition

(1868-1963)

First black man to recieve a PhD from harvard in history

Term
Carter G. Woodson
Definition

(1875-1950)

Father of Black History

Had 6 major platforms

Term
Atlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
Definition

9.4-12 million Africans came to America

Most came from West and Central Africa

It was during the 16th and 19th century.

Term
Impact of black power era on African American Studies
Definition
Blacks in shools and were demanding to be taught the same things as the white students. Led to partial desegregation of schools.
Term
Slavery during the antibellum era and 'quasi' freedom
Definition

488,000 blacks had quasi freedom

4,000,000 slaves and less than 400,000 white male owners

Term
Black fundamentals during the Civil War
Definition

The slaves would work on plantations and keep the confederates happy.

The freed north slaves fought in the war

186,000 blacks soldiers fought

South called the North 'contraband' because they were like property to the white man

Term
What freedom and emancipation meant to African Americans
Definition
Life, Family, Religion, Education, Culture, Identity, etc.
Term
13th, 14th and 15th Amendment
Definition

13th- 1865 : slavery abolished

14th- 1868 : civil rights to former slaves

15th- 1870 : black man can vote

Term

'Nadir' period

Definition

Defined by Rayford W. Logan

Key factors were:

disenfrranchisement (removal from politics)

"Jim Crow" segregation

Term
Lynching
Definition
Amethod used by white males to kill blacks. To set an example or just to kill
Term
Definitions of the Black Mass Movement (8)
Definition

collective response to oppression

Grassroots in orientation

100s to 1000s of people

last for various time periods

Black folk culture

Success measured in many ways

Unity and solidarity

Key Leaders, often messaihs

Term

Basic black movement before the Great Migration

Definition

Voluntary and involuntary

slave trades

Term
Particulars of the Great Migration
Definition

Push/Pull factors

new life

get away from the bad

Term

Nobel Drew Ali abd the Moorish Science Temple

Definition

(1886-19290

Founded temple in 1913

Had certian beliefs and philosophies

64 page Holy Koran

Term
Nation of Islam
Definition

Founded in Detroit by Wallace D. Fard in 1930

Had 2 main books, beliefs, organizations

Farrkhan came in 1933

Term
 3 Events that sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement (CRM)
Definition

The Brown vs. Board of Education

Lynching of Emmitt Till

The Montgomery Bus Boyott

Term
5 major forms of mass protest during the modern CRM
Definition

boycott

freedom rides

voter registration

marches

sit-ins/ kneel-ins

Term
10 Characteristics of the modern CRM
Definition

Media

Violent Period

Mass Movement

Racial Orientation

Voting Acts

Church Center

Cross Generation

Groups

Global Mass Movement

Segregation was violent

Term
Goals of the UNIA
Definition

to promote race, pride and love

to administer and help the needy

to reclaim the fallen of their race

to establish organizations for further education

to conduct commercial and industrial intercourse

 

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