Civil Rights
Civil Rights
Civil Rights
Civil Rights
Civil Rights
100
Which case ordered that 'separate but equal' was constitutional?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
100
Who was the first leader of the SCLC?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
100
What are nonviolent protests where participants sit and refuse to move?
What are sit-ins
100
What does SCLC stand for?
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference
100
What was Rosa Parks arrested for?
What is refusing to give up her seat to a white riders
200
What does VEP stand for?
What is Voter Education Project
200
Who sent 600 Federal Marshals to help protect the Freedom Riders?
Who is Attorney General Bobby Kennedy
200
What case ruled that schools must be desegregated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200
Who enrolled at the University of Mississippi and had to be accompanied by 500 Federal Marshals his first day?
Who is James Meredith
200
What amendment banned poll taxes?
What is the 24th amendment
300
This man was the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
Before his change of policy concerning the approach to Civil Rights, Malcolm X was a member of this group.
What is Nation of Islam
300
This law banned discrimination in employment and public accomodations
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
300
This term refers to the type of segregation based on the beliefs, traditions, and customs of society.
What is de facto segregation
300
This term refers to legal segregation or segregation based on law.
What is de jure segregation
400
This term refers to African-American pride
What is Black Power
400
This term refers to the type of laws specifically created to segregate Blacks and Whites
What is Jim Crow
400
What does CORE stand for?
What is Congress of Racial Equality
400
This term refers to the hiring and enrollment of those who have been discriminated in the past
What is affirmative action
400
This eliminated literacy tests as well as provided more opportunities for African-Americans to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
500
What organization wanted to desegregate the Democratic Party?
What is MFDP - Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
500
What does NAACP stand for?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
500
This Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama used fire hoses and dogs to break up demonstrations.
Who is Bull Connor
500
What was the name of the bridge crossed in the famous Bloody Sunday march?
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge
500
This Governor of Alabama said "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, and Segregation Forever"
Who is George Wallace
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