Early Black History

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  1. 3. This African accompanied Lewis and Clark when they made their 1804 expedition from Missouri to Oregon. You don’t hear about him often in textbooks, but he was a slave who learned many languages and aided in the interactions with Native Americans. Do you know when they retuned East, York wasn't even given his freedom. Smh
  2. 4. This term refers to the brutal and forced transportation of African people to the Americas and the Caribbean as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
  3. 5. Stands for Historically Black College and University. They were started to help educate blacks who were shut out of white colleges.
  4. 6. The first African American pilots in the US armed forces. They are also depicted in the G.I. Joe action figure series. The ________ ________
  5. 12. The first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. After she enrolled, white parents pulled their children f school, teachers refused to teach and she had to be escorted to and from school by U.S. Marshalls due to death threats. Do you know that you live in what is considered the South?
  6. 14. One who fights for the immediate end of slavery
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  1. 1. A freedom fighter who led one of the most successful slave rebellions in history.
  2. 2. This African woman was an author and poet. She was born in Gambia in West Africa and was sold in to slavery in America. She was the first black woman to publish a poem in America. In 1773, she bought her freedom and went on to earn a living from her writing.
  3. 7. Abraham Lincoln DID NOT free slaves. I repeat, Abraham Lincoln DID NOT free the slaves. The 13th ____________ to the US Constitution banned slavery in the United States and therefore freed African Americans from slavery. Not Abe Lincoln. He didn’t even want to!
  4. 8. Please don’t think of the North as always having been anti-slavery. At some point, it just decided that slavery wasn’t necessary for the economy. In fact, this northern state was the first state to legalize slavery.
  5. 9. The 1920’s movement of six million African Americans from the rural south to cities in the North, Midwest and West. Termed the Great ________.
  6. 10. The true “Father of Medicine,” he is the first known physician/doctor in the world. He is also known as being an architect, designing the first pyramid in Egypt.
  7. 11. An enslaved African American who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his family. In 1857, the Supreme Court said that Blacks were property (three-fifths of a man) and could never be citizens.
  8. 13. During the Triangular Trade, slaves were carried across the __________ ocean in order to reach the Americas
  9. 14. Most resource-rich continent in the world