APUSH African Americans

Phillis Wheatley

Female poet and author who published works such as “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” and "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield" while enslaved in the late 1700s.

Nat Turner

Led the 1831 rebellion in Virginia, sparking abolition debates.

Sojourner Truth

Abolotionist and women’s right advocate “ain’t I a woman” and “40 years a slave”

Frederick Douglas

Escaped slave turned abolitionist writer who published his narrative the North Star

Harriet Tubman

Black Moses who led the Underground Railroad

Hiram Revels

First American African US Senator who was elected with the 15th Amendment

Ida B. Wells

Journalist known for “Red Record” lynching commentary

Booker T. Washington

Educator and advocate for vocational training, founded Tuskegee Institute.

W.E.B. DuBois

NAACP co founder who supported the talented tenth

A. Philip Randolph

Labor leader who fought against employment discrimination

Martin Luther King Jr.

Advocated for civil rights reform and nonviolent protest

Rosa Parks

Sparked bus boycott and NAACP member

Malcolm X

Nationalist leader advocated for rights and self defense

Stokely Carmichael

SNCC leader and advocated for black power

Barack Obama

First black president and symbol of progress

Exodusters

African American migrants who escaped the post Civil War south for opportunities in the west

NAACP

organization for racial equality through legal action

Harlem Renaissance Artists

Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston and other artists

Tuskegee Airman

Courageous African American aviators

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Founded by MLK Jr. promoted nonviolent activism

SNCC

Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee

Black Pantthers

Militant group advocating for empowerment

Middle Passage

Brutal journey of enslaved Africans to the Americas

Stono Rebellion

1739 slave revolt in South Carolina, one of the largest uprising

Tulsa Race Massacre

Destruction of the prospoerous Greenwood district, known as Black Wall Street, by a white mob

Double V Campaign

During WWII, campaign for victory vs. fascism abroad and racism at home.

Brown v. Board of Education

1954 SC ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturned Plessy v. Ferguson doctrine.

LA Riots

Period of civil unrest sparked by acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King beating.

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.