This is the individual who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This was the name of the demonstration designed to force the Interstate Commerce Commission to ban segregation in all interstate travel facilities like bus and train terminals.
What is Freedom Ride?
100
Ella Baker, the 1st Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference established a branch for college students called...
What is the SNCC?
100
This theme was developed by Stokley Carmichael calling for black people in America to begin to define their own goals and lead their own organizations.
What is Black Power?
100
___________ held in local churches to motivate and inform.
What are mass meetings?
200
This African-American Civil Rights leader argued blacks should arm themselves for self-defense.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
This Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas)?
200
The most radical African American expression of self-sufficiency for Black Americans were the __________.
Who are the Black Panthers?
200
This was the NAACP lawyer who successfully argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
Use of ____________ to promote the boycott in the Black Community.
What are handbills?
300
This person killed Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
Who is Byron de la Beckwith?
300
Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin were the two leaders who organized _______________.
What is the March on Washington?
300
Following the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 a group of 100 Southern Senators and Congressmen issued a document pledging to resist school integration by all lawful means. This document is called ___________.
What is the Southern Manifesto?
300
This term means segregation by practice and custom.
What is the de facto segregation?
300
Organization of an extensive ______________ transportation system of cars.
What is private?
400
This is the Howard University Law School professor who developed the strategy of challenging racial segregation in college and secondary public schools.
Who is Charles H. Houston?
400
E.D. Nixon was the president of the Alabama NAACP who suggested the _______________________.
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
This federal commission appointed by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson concluded that economics and white racism caused the terrible urban rioting following the death of MLK JR in 1968.
What is the Kerner Commission?
400
These are the state laws which legally segregated the races.
What is Jim Crow?
400
Development of the _________ organization
What is the M.I.A.?
500
This individual was the spokesperson for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 National Democratic Convention.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
500
This landmark Supreme Court decision established the separate but equal doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
This groups leader, Elijah Muhammad, convinced Malcolm X to become a follower.
What are the Black Muslims?
500
Governor Ross Barnett refused to allow James Meredith to enroll in this university in 1962 touching off rioting by whites, in which 2 people were killed and 200 arrested.
What is the University of Mississippi?
500
Legal challenge in ____________________ to segregation in public transportation system of cars.