His early philosophy is best exemplified by the quote, "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
Who is Malcolm X?
100
This attorney argued that separate but equal could not fundamentally and fairly exist in Brown v. Board.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
The nickname given to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, although Southerners would argue that they had an opposite effect.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
100
3,445 blacks and 1,297 whites were subject to this punishment without due process.
What is lynching?
100
Sherman's March to the Sea involved reckless destruction of Southern property with the exception of blacks under what federal oath?
What is Field Order 15?
200
They uttered, "I want to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people will want to be free" after conducting our nation's longest boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
A way that a southern state could ensure that its voters had the successful mental capabilities required to participate in an elective democracy.
What is a literacy test?
200
The bill that finally ended segregation in many public facilities; the first of its kind on a national level.
What is The Civil Rights Act of 1964
200
This presidential power was used by Andrew Johnson to ensure that southerners maintained power over the land in the south to keep blacks oppressed in the Reconstruction era.
What is the pardon?
200
These two groups were told by the government that they were free, but continued the practice of slavery under a cycle of poverty.
Who are tenant farmers and sharecroppers?
300
Often uttered in the halls of Tuskegee were his teachings such as "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This Arkansas governor argued that integration of the Little Rock 9 violated states rights.
Who is Orville Faubus?
300
Passed in order to deepen the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment in the South.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1965?
300
Prohibited blacks from marriage, attending court, and from being kept in prisons.
What are Black Codes?
300
King's philosophy was inspired by this man, who encouraged readers not to follow unjust laws.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
A UNIA president who once said, "The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness."
Who is Marcus Garvey?
400
The year that Virginia cut off all of its state funding to integrated public schools.
What is Massive Resistance?
400
Nixon's plan to extend affirmative action policies to scholarships and federally funded grants.
What is the Philadelphia Plan?
400
This failed federal agency tried desperately to educate, feed, and clothe blacks in the Reconstruction south.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
A UCLA medical school candidate was denied entry, resulting in the first lawsuit against affirmative action policies.
What is the Bakke Case?
500
His poem rings not entirely of patriotism but rather, "Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth"
Who is Claude Mckay?
500
JFK mandated 400 federal guard members to escort this man into his entry at Ole Miss.
Who is James Meredith?
500
Ulysses S Grant used this bill to somewhat literally chase the KKK out of Northern Virginia.
What is/are the Force Act (s)?
500
Besides blacks, the original KKK targeted these three groups:
Who are:
Catholics
Carpetbaggers (Republicans moving south)
Scalawags (Democrats who re-registered Republican)
500
The insect that plagued southern cotton fields, forcing the First Great Migration to ensue.