African American History Glossary

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• abolition movement
• affirmative action
• African Methodist Episcopal
• American Colonization Society

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• Black Panther Party
• black codes
• Black History Month
• black power
• Bloody Sunday
• blues
• Brown v. Board of Education
• buffalo soldiers

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C

• Civil Rights Act
• civil rights movement
• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
• The Crisis

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D

• Dred Scott Case

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E

• Emancipation Proclamation

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F

• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• field hollers
• Fisk University
• Freedom Rides
• Freedom Summer
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Fugitive Slave Acts

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G

• grandfather clause
• Great Migration

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H

• Harlem Renaissance
• Howard University

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I

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J

• Jim Crow
• Jim Crow laws
• Juneteenth

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K

• Ku Klux Klan
• Kwanzaa

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L

• literacy tests
• Little Rock Nine
• lunch counter sit-ins

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M

• March on Washington
• minstrelsy
• Montgomery Bus Boycott

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N

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Negro baseball leagues

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O

• Orangeburg Massacre

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P

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• poll taxes

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R

• Reconstruction
• Red Summer

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S

• Scottsboro Boys Trials
• Selma to Montgomery March - Bloody Sunday
• 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
• sit-ins
• slavery
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
• spirituals
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• Sweatt v. Painter

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T

• Tuskegee Airmen
• Tuskegee University

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U

• Underground Railroad
• Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

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V

• Voting Rights Act

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W

• work calls
• work songs

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