African American Studies
Across
- 1. The family in Piedmont whose house was bombed to force them out.
- 3. The first name of the man who broke the "color line" in pro baseball.
- 4. Using science fiction to imagine a better future for Black people.
- 6. He started the "Back to Africa" movement and taught Black pride.
- 8. The "Black _______" is the idea that Black art should have its own beauty standards.
- 11. Jordan ______, the director of Get Out who uses horror to talk about race.
- 14. Eminent _______ is when the city takes your land to build a park or school.
- 16. When millions of Black families moved from the South to Northern cities.
- 18. What students at San Francisco State did in 1968 to get Black Studies started.
- 19. When banks refused to give mortgages to Black families in certain areas.
Down
- 2. The title of the play about the Younger family’s housing struggle.
- 4. The system of segregation in South Africa that Black Americans helped fight.
- 5. The NFL quarterback who knelt to protest police brutality.
- 7. The boxer who was a hero for both his fighting and his civil rights activism.
- 9. Major ______, a 19th-century Black athlete who was a world champion cyclist.
- 10. Legal rules written into house deeds to stop Black people from moving in.
- 12. The three-letter acronym for the Black Arts Movement.
- 13. These started showing Black professionals on TV once they saw the "Black Dollar" had value.
- 15. A big word for a study that mixes history, art, and sociology together.
- 17. Jesse ______, the track star who won four gold medals in front of Hitler.