White Lilac
Background Notes
1. What is an abolitionist?
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ab·o·li·tion·ist or Abo·li·tion·ist (plural Abo·li·tion·ists) opponent of slavery: somebody who campaigned against slavery during the 18th and 19th centuries; somebody who seeks to ban something: somebody who supports the abolition of a practice
2. What is the date of the Emancipation Proclamation?
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22nd day of September, A.D. 1862
3. Which president gives the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Abraham Lincoln
4. What is the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
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all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any
of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
5. What is Juneteenth?
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The celebration of Juneteenth is not only a show-case event of the African American community's positive contributions to the American way of life, but it also makes a statement for all Americans that the United States is truly the "Land of the Free." Juneteenth is an expression and extension of American freedom and, like the Fourth of July, a time for all Americans to celebrate our independence, human rights, civil rights and freedom.
6. Who is General Grange
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Juneteenth began in the great state of Texas when Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army led his troops into the city of Galveston. There, on June 19, 1865, he officially proclaimed freedom for slaves in that state. Granger's ride through Galveston culminated a two-and-a-half year trek through America's deep south. But many states, parishes and counties had been excluded from learning of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, leaving millions of African American slaves without their freedom. Thus it was that on this date the African American slaves of Texas and other parts of the South celebrated the final execution of the Emancipation Proclamation, giving them their freedom forever.
7. What are the “Jim Crow Laws”?
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From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated.
8. What does the NAACP stand for?
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - the oldest civil rights organization
9. Who are W.E.B. Du Bois & Marcus Garvey?
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Equality for African-Americans! Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois fought for it. Both men began campaigns to accomplish civil rights.
10. What is the official title of “The War Between the States”?
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The Civil War
11. What is the “United Negro Improvement Association”?
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Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), represent the largest mass movement in African-American history.
12. What does KKK stand for?
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Ku Klux Klan
13. What is the KKK?
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1. 19C white supremacist group: a terrorist secret society organized in the South after the Civil War that used violence and murder to promote its white supremacist beliefs
2. 20C white supremacist group: a white supremacist organization founded in Georgia in 1915. Its secret membership, supremacist views, and terrorist methods are similar to those of the 19th-century Ku Klux Klan.
14. Define suffragist.
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somebody advocating extending voting rights: a supporter of the extension of the right to vote to a particular group, especially to women, or to all people above a particular age