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Black Experience II Final
WWI-Black Revolution
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05/09/2009

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Term
who was sent to study the troops race problem in France?
Definition
Dubois & Emmit Scott
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what was "the red summer" about?
Definition
race riots after WWI
Term
who wrote "the red summer" in 1919?
Definition
weldon johnson
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where were many african americans based during WWI?
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france
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how many african americans were drafted in WWI?
Definition
2 million
Term
how many african americans were sent to europe during WWI?
Definition
400 thousand
Term
why did the US enter WWI?
Definition
anglophyllic nature, zimmerman note, sinking of US ships by Germans
Term
when did the US enter WWI?
Definition
April 6, 1917
Term
what are the dates of WWI?
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1914-1919
Term
what are the three reasons that lead to WWI?
Definition
the assassination of archduke ferdinand, german unification, alliences
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what event ended WWI? where? when?
Definition
treaty of versailles, 1919, france
Term
who formed the UNIA?
Definition
Marcus Garvey
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what does UNIA stand for?
Definition
universal negro improvement association
Term
who did marcus garvey correspond with?
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CDB King, president of Liberia
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who intercepted the letters of Garvey and King? why?
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British and French, worried because had countries near Liberia
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where did marcus garvey die?
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london, after being sent back to jamaica
Term
who developed the term pan africanism?
Definition
fredrick williams
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what is pan africanism?
Definition
the notion that all africans have common root in africa
Term
what are diaspora studies?
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the dispersal of african peoples all over the world through voluntary, forced, and induced migrations
Term
where and when did dubois die?
Definition
Ghana, 1916
Term
Who organized the African Union? When?
Definition
Kwame Nkrumah, 1963
Term
Who was president from 1920-24?
Definition
Warren G. Harding
Term
When did the Republican party collapse?
Definition
1932 elections, Hoover-blamed for Depression
Term
Who was the first Black congressman elected since the reconstruction?
Definition
Oscar DePriest
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What party was Oscar DePriest? Where was he from?
Definition
Republican, south side Chicago
Term
What happened in 1934 that demonstrated "the great switch"?
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DePriest lost to John D. Mitchell (democrat)
Term
What caused the great switch?
Definition
FDR & the New Deal
Term
What year did the Harlem Renaissance begin?
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1925
Term
Who inspired the Harlem Renaissance?
Definition
Marcus Garvey
Term
What was it called when southern blacks came to Harlem and upperclass blacks left?
Definition
Black Flight
Term
What were the years of WWII?
Definition
1939-1945
Term
When was Pearl Harbor?
Definition
December 7, 1941
Term
What were the reasons for WWII?
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German Pride,appeasement, failure of collective responsibility
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What organization was formed in 1942?
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CORE
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Who formed CORE?
Definition
Robert Farmer
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What trade union was formed in 1943? Who started it?
Definition
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, J. Philip Randolph
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What groups joined together in 1943 to march on DC?
Definition
NAACP, CORE, and Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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What did the Black Revolution fight against?
Definition
seperate but equal doctrine & voting power
Term
What were the years of the Quiet phase?
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1945-1954
Term
What were the years of the Assertive Non Violent Stage?
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1955-1965
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What were the years of the violent phase?
Definition
1965-1974
Term
What did Truman do in 1949?
Definition
no more separate but equal in military
Term
Who lead the Nation of Islam?
Definition
Elijah P. Mohammad
Term
The court case Ada Sipuel vs. University of Oklahoma was a precursor for what later groundbreaking case?
Definition
Brown vs. Board of Education
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What NAACP lawyer fought in both Ada and Brown's case?
Definition
Thurgood Marshall
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Who was the racist governor of Alabama?
Definition
George Wallace
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Who was another outspoken governor concerning segregation forever?
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Lester Madox, Georgia
Term
What year was Brown vs. Board of Education?
Definition
1954
Term
What made Eisenhower popular among the public to begin with?
Definition
general of troops WWII
Term
What party was Eisenhower from?
Definition
Republican
Term
What years was Eisenhower president?
Definition
1953-61
Term
What percent of bus riders in Montgomery were black?
Definition
75%
Term
What organization developed in 1955?
Definition
MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association)
Term
Who lead the MIA?
Definition
Martin Luther King Junior
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What did the MIA change to?
Definition
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Term
Where was MLK shot?
Definition
Memphis, TN
Term
Who tried to start a chapter of NAACP in Jackson, MI?
Definition
J. Medgar Evers (1963)
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What seminary did MLK attend?
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Crozer Seminary
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What philosophy did MLK follow?
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Mahatma Gandhi, philosophy of assertive nonviolence
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What year did the Gold Coast become independent?
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1957
Term
What did the Gold Coast become once it gained it's independence?
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Ghana
Term
Who was Prime Minister of Ghana when it gained independence?
Definition
Kwame Nkrumah
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What important quote did Kwame Nkrumah say?
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"the liberation of Ghana is meaningless without the total liberation of Black people everywhere & anywhere"
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who tested the separate but equal doctrine?
Definition
the ambassador of ghana
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What president was elected in 1960?
Definition
Kennedy
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What year was Kennedy assassinated?
Definition
1963
Term
Who pressured Kennedy?
Definition
George Wallace
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Who made the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Definition
Lyndon B Johnson
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What year did Johnson create the Voting Rights Act?
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1965
Term
What was the first major city to have a black mayor? What year?
Definition
Cleveland, 1967
Term
Who attempted to go to the University of MI in 1963?
Definition
James Meredith
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Where did James Meredith go to college after being rejected by the University of MI?
Definition
Univ. of Ghana
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What year was Kwame Nkrumah no longer Prime Minister of Ghana?
Definition
1966
Term
When was the Black Power movement?
Definition
late sixties
Term
What does the SNCC stand for?
Definition
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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What year did the SNCC begin?
Definition
1961
Term
What type of nonviolent protest was the SNCC most popular for?
Definition
sit-ins
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Who started the SNCC? And who was VP?
Definition
Stokely Carmichael, Rap Brown
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What two pieces of legislation were called "the Great Magna Carta of Black Civil Liberties"?
Definition
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965
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What year was the real Magna Carta signed?
Definition
1215 AD
Term
What party did George Wallace create in 1968?
Definition
Independent Party
Term
Why was the independent party created?
Definition
Wallace was mad at Lyndon B. Johnson & democrats
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What was the other conservative southern political party led by George Wallace?
Definition
bollweevil
Term
What years were France and Vietnam at war?
Definition
1924-1954
Term
What was the "unholy alliance"?
Definition
black & white middle class during the Vietnam war
Term
why did many people oppose the vietnam war?
Definition
cost, high death rate, & draft
Term
who was dick gregory?
Definition
popular comedian during 1960s & civil rights activist
Term
What did SDS stand for?
Definition
Students for Democratic society
Term
what was the SDS fighting for?
Definition
no ROTC on campus
Term
when the term "black power" was coined what did it mean?
Definition
it was time for Black people to control their own neighborhood
Term
When did the Black Power movement turn violent?
Definition
mid sixties
Term
Who split from MLK to join the Black Panthers?
Definition
Stokely Carmichael
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When was Malcolm X gunned down?
Definition
1965
Term
What was a result of MLKs death?
Definition
Black unification
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what year did Carmichael give up?
Definition
1966
Term
What was the Black Panthers slogan?
Definition
"burn baby burn"
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Who were three prominent Black Panther members?
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Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Elridge Cleavers
Term
What did the Black Panthers call white police?
Definition
pigs
Term
By what year was "separate but equal" disbanded?
Definition
1970
Term
What president created "black capitalism" and affirmative action?
Definition
Nixon
Term
What was black capitalism?
Definition
creating black businessmen
Term
What year did Affirmative Action begin?
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1972
Term
Who mainly opposes Affirmative Action?
Definition
white males, jewish americans
Term
What year did the Black Revolution end?
Definition
1974
Term
what are three pros of european imperialism?
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brought european tech., created nation states, introduced european languages
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what are two cons of european imperialism?
Definition
racism, inferiority complex (dependency)
Term
Who was Kenneth Kaunda?
Definition
led Zambia to independence in 1964, president
Term
who was milton obote?
Definition
led Uganda to independence in 1962, became president
Term
Who was Nhamdi Azikiwe?
Definition
first president of independent Nigeria, mentor to Kwame Nkrumah
Term
who was milton margai?
Definition
prime minister of Sierra Leone
Term
who was haile selassie?
Definition
emperor of Eithopia
Term
Who was William Tubman?
Definition
president of Liberia 1944
Term
Who was Habib Bourguiba?
Definition
first president of republic of Tunisia
Term
Who was Kwame Nkrumah?
Definition
president of Ghana
Term
Who was Patrice Lumumda?
Definition
president of Congo after helping to win independence from Belgium, murdered
Term
Who was Jorno Nycrore?
Definition
president of Kenya
Term
Who was Julius Nyerere?
Definition
first president of Tanzania
Term
Who was Sekou Toure?
Definition
president of the republic of guinea
Term
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Definition
president of South Africa, led movement against apartheid
Term
Who was Robert Mugabe?
Definition
president of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe
Term
Who was Abdel Masser?
Definition
president of Egypt
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