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BHM Pd 1 2019
Period 1 Black History Month Period 1 Projects
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| West Computers | an all-African-American all-female group of mathematicians who worked as human computers at NACA (later known as NASA) |
| NACA | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics- changes to NASA in 1958 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) |
| Friendship 7 | name of spacecraft that enabled astronaut John Glenn to circle the Earth three times |
| Ted Skopinski | Katherine's coworker who co-authored a report with her, (the first time a woman in the Flight Research Division had received credit as an author of a research report) |
| Barack Obama | awarded Katherine the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | mass protest against the bus system in 1955-1956 |
| boycott | withdrawing from an organization as a form of protest |
| MIA | Montgomery Improvement Association |
| WPC | Women’s Political Court |
| Martin Luther King Jr | a minister and activist in the civil rights movement |
| Rosa Parks: | an African American woman who triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was an activist in the civil rights movement |
| Malcolm X | an American Muslim minister and violent human rights activist |
| Nation of Islam | An African American political and religious movement, founded in Detroit, Michigan |
| Black Supremacy | the belief that the African American race is superior to all other races |
| Racism | the hatred of a race of people |
| Activist | a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change |
| Youth March for Integrated Schools | the first of two youth marches on Washington; done to demonstrate support for ongoing efforts to end racially segregated schools in the United States |
| Peaceful protest | expressing disapproval through a statement or action without the use of violence |
| Martin Luther King Jr | an American Baptist minister and prominent civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s |
| Integration | the intermixing of people or groups previously segregated(in this case black and white schools) |
| Integration | the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality |
| Apollo 16 | A manned lunar mission in 1972 with the goals of exploring the surface of the moon |
| Science & Engineers Apprentice Program | A program created by Geroge Carruthers that allows high school students to spend a summer at the US Naval Research Facility |
| Spectrograph | A scientific instrument that separates the spectrum of light and allows for the analysis of stars and other celestial bodies |
| Image Converter | One of Carruthers's inventions |
| George Robert Carruthers | An African American physicist who invented many scientific instruments regarding the observation of light waves and radiation |
| 15th amendment | The amendment signed after the Civil War that gave former slaves the right to vote |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Signed in on August 6th, 1965, denying the government ability to discriminate voting rights |
| Grandfather clauses | Those that could vote before 1866/1867 or their descendants would not have to meet various requirements for voting |
| Poll taxes | A type of tax not affected by property ownership or income that affects a citizen’s right to vote |
| Literacy tests | Reading and writing tests given before people could be eligible to vote |
| Jim Crow laws | any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 |
| American Civil RIghts Association | The association behind challenging the Jim Crow laws as constitutional |
| Separate Car Act | states could not prohibit segregation on common carriers such as railroads, streetcars, or riverboats |
| Jim Crow | minstrel routine produced and performed by a white comedian named Thomas Dartmouth Rice |
| John Allen Hendrix | Jimi Hendrix’s real name |
| Chas Chandler | Jimi Hendrix's manager |
| Electric Ladyland | An album by Jimi Hendrix that was released in 1969 |
| Ukulele | This was the first instrument Jimi Hendrix ever played |
| Mitch Mitchell | The drummer of Jimi Hendrix Experience |
| First rays of the new rising son | The album Jimi hendrix was working on before he died |
| Are you Experienced | Jimi Hendrix's first and most popular album |
| NOI | Nation of Islam |
| Islam | The religion of Muslims |
| Supremacist | One who believes that there said organization, race, sex, or others are superior to all others |
| Temples | The place where those of the Muslim or Islamic faith go to worship |
| Quran | The sacred text within Islam |
| Mecca | Where Muhammad was born |
| Rock & Roll | A type of music which draws inspiration from both blues and folk music with parts that are heavily accented and repeated |
| Pioneer | A person who is the first to said area or field |
| Blues | A type of music that is at times sung both slow and low |
| Licks | A short series of notes in a solo or melody |
| Showmanship | To show skill or ability |
| Columbia University | where Hughes forcefully attended college to study engineering |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | poem by Hughes published when he was a teen |
| Joplin, Missouri | birthplace of Langston Hughes |
| Great Dark City | Hughes name for Harlem |
| Lincoln University- | PA university that Hughes got a scholarship to and attended |
| Jim Crow Laws | exemplified by the 24th amendment |
| 24th amendment | got rid of poll tax |
| August 27, 1962 | date that the amendment was proposed |
| January 23, 1962 | date that the amendment was passed |
| Poll Taxes | ended by the 24th amendment |
| Orval Eugene Faubus | Governor of Arkansas who used the Arkansas National Guard to block the entrance of the school |
| Central High | Definition |
| Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka | Landmark Supreme Court Case that ruled separate is not equal in schools |
| Ernest Green | The first african American to graduate from Central High |
| Screaming Eagles | The 101st Airborne Division that escorted the nine into Central High |
| Minnijean Brown | One of the nine who fought back against racist classmates and was expelled from Central High |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| LCCR | Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which was founded in part by Roy |
| Minnesota Daily | Roy’s college newspaper where he was an editor |
| Crisis Magazine | NAACP magazine that was formerly edited by W |
| March on Washington | A protest held in Washington D |
| Margaret Johnson | The name that Maya Angelou was born to |
| Civil Rights Movement | A transitional period of a political, economical, and social justice for minorities |
| Trailblazer | Someone who paves the way for others aspiring success |
| Activist | Those who campaign to bring about a political change |
| Memoirist | A person who writes memoirs |
| Terrorist | A group or organization that perform attacks on specific racial or religious groups |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group of terrorists who targeted African Americans |
| Dynamite | Type of explosive that causes mass destruction |
| Rendezvous | A meeting place |
| Congregation | A gathered body for religious worship |
| Civil rights activist | a leader of a potential movement trying to give equality to different people |
| Enterprise | a project or task one that requires effort |
| Vocalist | someone who sings and performs normally jazz or pop music groups |
| Change | when you want something different to happen to benefit people |
| Songwriter/ performer- | someone who writes their own songs and performs them to an audience |
| 1964 Civil Rights Act | law in the us that doesn’t allow discrimination based on race, color, and sex |
| Desegregation | a process to end segregation based on race |
| 15th Amendment | lets anyone vote no matter their race |
| Civil | something that is right known as being polite |
| Accommodations | changing something to make it suitable for others |
| The St. Paul Appeal | An African American weekly newspaper where Roy was an editor. |
| Crisis Magazine | NAACP magazine that was formerly edited by W. E. B. DuBois |
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