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African empire; fell 1591 |\n| Griots = oral historians; Sundiata epic preserves Mali founding.\u003Cbr>Culture, Trade & Leadership |\n| E. Africa: Great Zimbabwe (stone walls); Swahili Coast (Indian Ocean) .\u003Cbr>Queen Njinga (Ndongo-Matamba)—30 yrs guerrilla war vs. Portuguese.\u003Cbr>Syncretic Religions: Vodou (Haiti), Santería (Cuba), Candomblé (Brazil) -> blended indigenous African traditions with Catholicism to survive suppression. |\n| ✓ African cultural practices survived → syncretism in the Americas. |\n\n\n| Unit 3B: Harlem Renaissance & Migration |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| HBCUs & Black Education |  |  |\n| HBCUs: Fisk, Tuskegee, Howard established postCivil War.\u003Cbr>Black Greek orgs: Alpha Phi Alpha (1906), Delta Sigma Theta (1913) .\u003Cbr>Carter G. Woodson: founded Negro History Week (1926) .\u003Cbr>Schomburg: \"The Negro Digs Up His Past\" (1925)—archival recovery.\u003Cbr>The New Negro & Harlem Renaissance |  |  |\n| Alain Locke: The New Negro (1925)—cultural selfdetermination.\u003Cbr>Langston Hughes: \"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain\" (1926) . |  |  |\n| Figure Contribution |  |  |\n| Countee Cullen | \"Heritage\" (1925)—identity & Africa |  |\n| Claude McKay \"If We Must Die\" (1919)—defiance |  |  |\n| Duke Ellington |  | Jazz pioneer; \"It Don't Mean a\u003Cbr>Thing\" |\n| Great Migration & Pan-Africanism |  |  |\n| Great Migration: ~6M moved N/W (1910–70) . Push: Jim Crow. Pull: jobs.\u003Cbr>UNIA (Garvey): pan-African movement; \"Africa for Africans.\" |  |  |\n| ⚠ Two waves: 1910–1940 (1 .6M) & 1940–1970 (5M) . |  |  |\n\n\n| 2A: Slave Trade & Enslavement (30–35%) |\n| --- |\n| The Transatlantic Slave Trade |\n| Departure zones: Senegambia, Gold Coast, Bight of Biafra, W. Central Africa.\u003Cbr>Phillis Wheatley (1773): \"On Being Brought from Africa\" — 1st published Black poet.\u003Cbr>Olaudah Equiano (1789): autobiography exposed Middle Passage horrors.\u003Cbr>Resistance to Enslavement |\n| Amistad (1839): Cinqué led revolt → SCOTUS freed captives, abolition symbol.\u003Cbr>Antislavery mvmt: Quakers early opponents; grew 18th–19th c.\u003Cbr>Domestic slave trade: post-1808 ban → internal trade ↑ dramatically.\u003Cbr>Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831): Deadliest slave revolt in US history → terrified Southern enslavers and led to harsher, more restrictive slave codes.\u003Cbr>Slavery & American Law |\n| Law/Case Year Significance |\n| VA Act XII 1662 Status follows mother |\n| 3/5 Compromise 1787 Counted as 3/5 person |\n| Dred Scott 1857 Not citizens; no rights |\n| Race as social construct: law tied status to mother → created racial caste. |\n| \u003Cbr>✓ Analyze slave codes to identify how law constructed racial hierarchy. |\n| Unit 4A: Civil Rights Era (20–25%) |\n| Global Context & WWII |\n| Négritude: Aimé Césaire — reclaiming Black identity (1955) .\u003Cbr>Double V: victory over fascism abroad + racism at home (1942) .\u003Cbr>6888th Battalion: all-Black, all-female WWII unit; Tuskegee Airmen.\u003Cbr>G.I. Bill: benefits largely denied to Black veterans.\u003Cbr>Origins of Civil Rights Movement |\n| Clark Doll Test (1947): showed segregation's psychological harm.\u003Cbr>Brown v. Board (1954): \"separate is inherently unequal.\"\u003Cbr>Redlining: HOLC maps denied mortgages → Black wealth gap.\u003Cbr","cbCaikqC0VQgqVoZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikqC0VQgqVoZ","pdf",168991,"English","# 1: Origins of the African Diaspora (20–25%)\n## What Is African American Studies?\n## Africa Before the Slave Trade\n## Empire Key Facts\n## Unit 3B: Harlem Renaissance & Migration\n# 2A: Slave Trade & Enslavement (30–35%)\n## The Transatlantic Slave Trade\n## Resistance to Enslavement\n## Slavery & American Law\n# Unit 4A: Civil Rights Era (20–25%)\n## Global Context & WWII\n## Origins of Civil Rights Movement\n## Major Civil Rights Organizations\n# Unit 2B: Resistance & Path to Freedom\n## Revolts & Armed Resistance\n## Black Organizing & Political Thought\n## Abolition & the Underground Railroad\n# Unit 3A: Reconstruction to Jim Crow (20–25%)\n## Reconstruction Amendments\n## Freedmen's Bureau & Black Life","[{\"question\":\"What themes and disciplines define African American Studies in this guide?\",\"answer\":\"It describes an interdisciplinary field spanning history, literature, art, sociology, and political science, organized around four themes: migration \\u0026 diaspora, identity, creativity/arts, and resistance \\u0026 resilience.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the guide explain the transatlantic slave trade and resistance?\",\"answer\":\"It lists departure zones and key figures such as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, then highlights resistance through examples like the Amistad revolt and Nat Turner’s rebellion.\"},{\"question\":\"Which U.S. Supreme Court ruling is emphasized as central to civil rights progress?\",\"answer\":\"The guide cites Brown v. 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