Directions:

Read the slides and look out for questions to answer throughout the lesson. Remember to write the answers in complete sentences on a piece of paper or in your YGB Notebook!

  1. Who is Margaret Walker?

2. When she says “for my people” who is she referring to?

3. What is the blues?

3 cont. What is a jubilee?

4. What is chattel slavery?

5. What is domestic service? How were Black domestic service workers treated?

This video shows women in South Africa during apartheid having a very similar experience to Black women domestic workers in the U.S.

6. What role has the church played in African American history?

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7. Who was Nat Turner?

8. Name a few reasons the segreated school system was bad.

9. Why did some Black people like their experience in segregated schools better than their experience in integrated schools?

10. In “For My People”, when she says “consumption” and “anemia” what is she referring?

11. What is lynching?

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12. What is another name of 47th Street and why is it important?

13. During what time was Lenox Avenue a cultutal hotspot for Americans?

14. Where is Rampart Street and why was it important?

15. Who is Louis Armstrong?

16. What does the liberation of Black people look like to you?

Check to make sure you answered all the questions!