The Back-to-Africa movement was a short-lived and largely unsuccessful attempt to convince formerly enslaved Black Americans to migrate from the United States to West Africa in the early 1900s.
read analysis of Back-to-Africa Movement
Reconstruction
The Reconstruction era was the period after the Civil War, from 1865 to 1877, when the Confederacy was reincorporated into the United States and enslaved people became free citizens. During Reconstruction, Black Americans briefly held…
read analysis of Reconstruction
Talented Tenth
The “talented tenth” was Black American sociologist W. E. B. DuBois’s term for the Black elite, whom he hoped could receive a high-quality university education.
read analysis of Talented Tenth
Theology
Theology is the branch of religious studies that seeks to understand God through rational analysis and argument.
read analysis of Theology
Minstrelsy
In the United States, minstrel shows were a popular and derogatory type of theater performances in which Black actors—or, more commonly, white actors in blackface—played characters based on racist stereotypes about Black people.
read analysis of Minstrelsy
Get the entire The Mis-Education of the Negro LitChart as a printable PDF.
"My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof." -Graham S.
Jim Crow laws were a variety of laws that Southern U.S. states and cities used to enforce racial segregation between the end of Reconstruction and the 1960s. In addition to segregating public spaces, many Jim…
read analysis of Jim Crow Laws
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, today called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, is a prominent nonprofit organization that Carter G. Woodson founded in 1915…
read analysis of Association for the Study of Negro Life and History