The woman who was involved with the civil rights act for years but is known for sparking the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
What act banned literacy tests that disqualified many voters, especially black voters, from participating in elections?
What is the Voting Rights Act (of 1965)
100
How many days (approximately) did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
What is a little over a year?
100
MLK's most famous speech
What is the "I have a dream" speech?
100
A form of segregation mandated by law.
What is de jure segregation?
200
This man was the first african american judge on the supreme court and was involved in Brown vs. Board.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
This act prohibited discrimination based on gender, skin color, and religion.
What is the Civil Rights Act (of 1964)
200
A bus full of civil rights workers traveled into the deep south in order to help the unregistered black voters register.
What is Freedom Summer?
200
Martin Luther King jr.'s occupation.
What is a minister?
200
Segregation that is a bi product of Jim Crow laws, racism, and tradition.
What is de facto segregation?
300
A black boy who was beaten to death. His murderers were then acquitted for the murder on trial. His death made headlines when pictures from his open casket funeral were released by the media.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
This voting rights act prohibited discrimination in housing and protected civil rights workers.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
300
A march during which Martin Luther King jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.
What is the march on Washington?
300
MLK's policy regarding civil rights and protesting.
What is non-violence?
300
A militant african american organization formed to fight police brutality and provide serviced in the ghetto.
What are the Black Panthers?
400
This man used a militant approach to civil rights rather than a peaceful one. He believed in black superiority and separation from whites.
Who is Malcolm X?
400
This act established the federal Commission on Civil Rights & a Civil Rights division in the justice department.
What is the Civil Rights at of 1957?
400
A form of non-violent protest where african americans would sit down at white-only restaurants waiting to be served.
What are sit-ins?
400
MLK spearheaded this movement which made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
400
A policy implemented by the government to provide opportunities to minorities.
What is Affirmative Action?
500
An air-force veteran who fought a court case to gain entry to all-white university in Mississippi and won.
Who is James Meredith?
500
This amendment banned poll taxes.
What is the 24th amendment?
500
Civil rights activists who traveled into the south on a bus in order to test the enforcement of desegregation in public facilities.
What are freedom riders?
500
On this day, Martin Luther King jr. was shot and killed.
What is April 3rd, 1968?
500
The commission that studied the causes of urban violence to end de facto segregation by creating new jobs and wiping out the ghetto.