Raisin in the Sun Historical Slide Background Quiz

What is redlining?

• The practice of writing red lines over the applications of certain groups of people for their mortgages.

• a discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.

• The process of giving the other team an ultimatum to not cross the "red line."

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What were Jim Crow Laws

• state and local laws introduced in the Southern United states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.

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• Laws that prohibited interracial marriage

• Laws that mandated the use of separate public facilities for different racial groups

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Who was Lorraine Hansberry?

• She wrote "Grapes of Wrath"

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• She wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"

• She was a civil rights activist

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

• It was a period of increased economic prosperity for African-Americans in the early 20th century.

• It was a period of increased racial segregation in the United States.

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• it was an intellecutal and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in New York City in the 20s and 30s.

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What was Detroit's Black Bottom?

• It was a type of cuisine.

• It referred to a slum in Detroit that was known for its poverty.

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• It was a neighborhood in Detroit named after the rich soil and was known as a lively area with jazz bars and nightclubs. It was destroyed to create I-375 in the 1960s.

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