Final Exam Study Guide
History 318, African American History
Dr. Alisa Harrison
University of Victoria, Fall 2009
Exam format:
15 multiple choice (15 marks)
10 fill-in-the-blanks (10 marks)
2 short answers (10 marks): Choose two of three; explain and contextualize a series of terms/events.
1 essay (15 marks): Choose one of three topics.
In order to prepare for this exam you will need to be familiar with material presented in all lectures, discussions,
videos and readings. You will be asked to recall information as well as to respond with your own critical analyses
of events, phenomena, etc. The exam will lean heavily toward the second half of the course, i.e. postReconstruction, though there will also be some questions testing your knowledge of the first half.
The following are some important people/groups, terms, events, and issues with which you should be familiar.
Please note that this is meant to be a guideline only. It is NOT an exhaustive list of everything you may need to
know, nor is it a statement of precisely what will/won’t appear on the exam.
People/Groups:
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Jacobs
National Urban League
Booker T. Washington
Southern Farmers’ Alliance
All 20th- and 21st-century presidents
CORE
Elijah Muhammad
Bobby Seale
Montgomery Improvement Association
Women’s Political Council
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Berry Gordy
Thurgood Marshall
Dixiecrats
Bryant and Milam
James Forman
SNCC
Goodman, Chaney & Schwerner
J. Edgar Hoover
Joe Louis
Sugarhill Gang
Michael Steele
Colin Powell
Olaudah Equiano
NAACP
Populist Party
WEB Du Bois
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
Lowndes County Freedom
Organization
Nation of Islam
Black Panther Party for
Self-Defense
Rosa Parks
A. Philip Randolph
Def Jam
Henry Wallace
Charles Hamilton Houston
John Lewis
Charles Sherrod
Marion Gaines
Louis Allen
US Information Agency
Jackie Robinson
2 Live Crew
Randall Robinson
Condoleeza Rice
Sojourner Truth
National Association of
Colored Women
Ida B. Wells
Marcus Garvey
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Huey Newton
Women’s Political Council
Martin Luther King
ED Nixon
Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters
Strom Thurmond
Emmett Till
Bob Moses
Ella Baker
Greensboro Four
Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party
Last Poets
Parents Music Resource
Center
Fannie Lou Hamer
Terms:
HR 40
Subprime loans
Voting Rights Act 1965
Deindustrialization
Culture war
Motown
Compensated emancipation
“Negro rule”
reparations
affirmative action
Proposition 8
Regents of the University of
California v. Bakke
cultural nationalism
free labor/free soil
Tuskegee Institute
family wealth
Civil Rights Act 1964
War on Drugs
reverse discrimination
Gangsta rap
slave power conspiracy
disfranchisement
segregation
Jim Crow
Gang labor
Indentured servant
Maroons
Grandfather Clause
KKK
Talented Tenth
New Negro
Rhythm ‘n’ Blues
Black Arts Movement
Voter registration
Brown v. Board of Education
Freedom Rides
Missouri v. Canada, 1938
Fair Employment Practices Commission
States’ rights
Executive Order 8802
Events:
Great Migrations
Wilmington Massacre
Relevant presidential elections since
Reconstruction
Great Depression
Plessy v. Ferguson
hiring out
plantation generation
fusion rule
New South
Black Codes
Niagara Movement
urbanization
Rock ‘n’ Roll
“keeping it real”
direct action
Brown II
COINTELPRO
March on Washington
Movement
New Deal
Freedom Summer
Black Power
sharecropping
task labor
charter generation
Reconstruction Amendments
Redemption
Lynching
Home Rule
Jazz and blues
hip hop culture
civil rights movement
organizing
Journey of Reconciliation
Kerner Commission
Southern Manifesto
AAA
Double V
Survival programs
black nationalism
Selma to Montgomery March
Red Summer riots
Democratic National
Convention 1964
March on Washington 1963
Bloody Sunday
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Harlem Renaissance
WWI and II
James Meredith March Against
Fear
Issues:
 Changing relationship between the North and South
 Historical process of racialization
 African Americans’ relationships to and influence on the Democratic and Republican parties
 Relationship between federal and state governments
 Impact of the Cold War on American society, culture and policy (domestic and foreign)
 Power relations of Jim Crow (dynamics of race, sexuality, gender and class)
 Growth of white supremacy after the Civil War
 Domestic terrorism
 African American freedom struggle
 Transition from slavery to freedom
 Failures of Reconstruction
 Economic analysis of 20th-century white supremacy