CSTU 220 Quiz: Migration
- Approximately how many African Americans fled the South for the North and the West between 1915 and 1930?
- Approximately how many African Americans received commissions in the U.S. Army during the First World War?
- During World War I, who served as a special assistant to the secretary of war, advising on matters related to African Americans?
- A crucial difference between Marcus Garvey’s UNIA and both the NAACP and the socialist movement was that the UNIA
- Describe the economic and cultural impacts of the Great Migration and the First World War on African-American communities. What new opportunities opened to black Americans during this time, and which ones remained closed to them?
- Which black leader called for a Pan-African Congress to meet in Paris in 1919 and draw attention to the plight of African peoples?
- The ubiquity of race riots led the summer of which year to be known as the “Red Summer”?
- The failure of which crop contributed greatly to Afro-Caribbean migration into the United States in the early twentieth century?
- Approximately how many African Americans fled the South for the North and the West between 1915 and 1930?
- Briefly describe (in 2-3 sentences) the ways in which African American churches in the North shaped the Great Migration.