Shared Flashcard Set

Details

chapter 13-
The Era of Self-Help
34
History
Undergraduate 1
07/15/2015

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
IN 1865, only about 5% of the African American population could read. What was the percentage that was literate by 1910?
Definition

 

 

 

70%

Term
Which of the following statements is least correct about the Fisk Jubilee Seniors?
Definition
Althoug they won lasting fame, they failed to earn money.
Term
What issue arose in the 1880s amd 1890s to cause strife in the universities of Fisk and Howard?
Definition
The universities refusal to admit more blacks to positions of leadership
Term
The General education board and slater fund were examples of foundations to aid southern blacks schools established by who?
Definition
Wealthy industrialists
Term

White Philanthropic support for black southern schools increased as a result of whose emergence as a national figure?

 

Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
What stance did white southerners take on philanthropic associations funding of black schools in the late 19th century?
Definition
The fund assissted both private and church schools and made donations to publi schools.
Term
In 1908, Berea did what?
Definition
would only serve whites exclusively until the mid-twentieth century.
Term
The curriculum in which institution exemplified the philosophy that education for blacks should consist primarily of industrial training
Definition
Hampton Institute
Term
Who coined the Phrase "talented Tenth," to refer to elite talented students who deserved the first in classical and liberal arts education?
Definition
Henry Morehouse
Term
who played a crucial role as a fundraiser at Tuskegee Institute and name "Mrs. Booker T. Washington."
Definition
Olivia Davidson
Term
Which of the following statement about Booker T. Washington is least accurate?
Definition
He argued that a liberal arts education was the surest means to improve the status of black people
Term
"The line in all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the five fingers, got one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Who is the quote contributed to?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
Who wrote the autobiographical, "Up from Slavery."
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
The famous scientist and botanist George Washington Carver became the head of which schools agricultural program in 1886.
Definition
Tuskegee
Term
Booker T. Washington caused outraged with many white southerners by accepting to drive with which president?
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt
Term
Which African American writer of being accused of being a race traitor in his book of being inferior to blacks
Definition
William Hannibal Thomas
Term
Which editor of the Freeman help to find the Afro-American league in 1890 to agitate for black rights.
Definition
Timothy Thomas Fortune
Term
Ida B. Wells was best known for involvement in which movement?
Definition
anti-lynching
Term
Which co-editor of the Boston guardian and the first black man accepted the Phi Beta Kappa?
Definition
William Monroe Trotter
Term
W.E.B Du Bois challenged Booker T. Washington on all of the following grounds accept.
Definition
Washington's conciliatory demeanor towards blacks being able to defend their rights and lives without the suffrage.
Term
What provided the immediate led to the Niagara Movement
Definition
Washingtons pervasive influence with white philanthropists
Term
The Niagara Movement original platform called for all of the following except.
Definition
Gauranteed suffrage for black men and all women
Term
The Niagara Movement of the early 20th century is best characterized as what?
Definition
A small group which sought support primarily for the most educated blacks.
Term
Who wrote the book the HIstory of the Negro Race in America from 1619-1980
Definition
George W. Williams
Term
Which American black boxer is associated with the term, "The great white hope."
Definition
Jack Johnson
Term
Which of the following persons was a Bookerite who was not a member of the Niagarites.
Definition
James Weldon Johnson
Term
Whose speeches in fvor of industrial training earned her nickname "The female Booker T. Washington."
Definition
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Term
What was the same view Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglas had.
Definition
Blacks should remain in the South
Term
Which black inventor patented 50 different devices
Definition
Elijah McCoy
Term
It is true that Du Bois and Washington did not see eye to eye. But they both publicly supported what?
Definition
the establishment of black owned business
Term
Which African American painter spent most of his time in Europe. Painted the Banjo Lesson.
Definition
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Term
Which female entrepreneur who was wealthy by marketing  beauty system.
Definition
Madame C.J Walker
Term
First president of the National Association of colored women?
Definition
Mary Church Terrell
Term
In a book, titled the "conservation of races." Who articulated the idea that African Americans face a dilemma as a result of being Negroes and Americans at the same.
Definition
W.E.B Du Bois
Supporting users have an ad free experience!