Toni Morrison
Civil Rights
Desegregation
100
After finishing school at Howard and Cornell, where did Toni teach at FIRST?
Texas Southern University
100
This organization was formed during a meeting to discuss extending the Montgomery bus boycott.
MIA
100
This case started in Texas and went to the Supreme Court of the U.S.?
Sweat v. Painter
200
Where was Harold (Toni's husband) from?
Jamaica
200
This famous civil rights incident happened on February 1, 1960.
Greensboro Sit-In
200
The name of fierce opposition to the desegregation ruling?
Massive resistance.
300
Besides "The Bluest Eye" name another one of her novels.
Sula, Beloved, Song of Solomon
300
These two organization were in the Selma to Montgomery March.
Southern Christian leadership conference, student nonviolent coordinating committee
300
Though Plessy v. Ferguson wasn’t about education. What was the ruling that would still be applied?
Separate but equal.
400
Who did Pecola idolize?
Shirley Temple
400
Malcolm died on?
February 21, 1965
400
The university that was brought to the Supreme Court in 1950.
University of Texas
500
Which novel was made into a movie and who played the mother?
Beloved, Oprah
500
This person died in 1968.
MLK Jr.
500
What were the names of the counties involved with Brown v. Board of education?
Prince Edward, Washington, Topeka, New Castle, Clarendon
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