Human Rights
The number of articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What is thirty?
Laws that reinforced segregation of African Americans.
What is Jim Crow laws?
The court case that desegregated schools across America
What is Brown vs. Board 1954?
The key leader who refused to give up their seat on the bus.
What is Rosa Parks?
A key protest against the transit service in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1956?
The organisations that protect our human rights
What is the United Nations and NATO?
A type of segregation that segregate by law, such as banning interracial marriage
What is de jure segregation?
The landmark decision made by President Truman.
What is the desegregation of the military in 1948?
The leader that promoted non-violent protest to achieve change.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The tours across the American South against segregation.
What is the U.S. Freedom Rides in 1961?
The significant individuals that made the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A type of segregation that segregated without laws. e.g. housing discrimination.
What is de facto segregation?
Who is Emmett Till
Two key organisations that is part of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
What is the NAACP and CORE?
The event where the 'I Have a Dream speech' was delivered.
What is the March on Washington 1963?
The fundamental rights you are entitled to by being human
What is human rights?
The Supreme Court case that upheld Jim Crow Laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The state where the little rock 9 tried to go to school
What is Arkansas
The activist who was escorted by federal marshals after being admitted to the University of Mississippi.
What is James Meredith?
The law passed by JFK that ended all racial discrimination in America.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The reasons why we have the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It is to provide common understanding of what's everyone's rights are. It was also born out of the atrocities and enormous loss of life during World War II.
The doctrine whereby racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the U.S. Constitution.
What is 'Separate but Equal'?
Sit ins begun in which city
The lawyer that won court cases involving school segregation and became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
What is Thurgood Marshall?
A series of marches that gave African-Americans the right to vote.
What is the Selma March of 1965?