WEB Dubois
(100 points)
WEB Dubois wanted this, and he is often contrasted with Booker T. Washington.
Immediate social and political rights.
(100 points)
This is the position that Thurgood Marshall had in the US Supreme Court.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(100 points)
This is the hometown of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. Maynard Jackson is the first African American mayor of this place, where they also hosted the 1996 Olympic Games.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
(100 points)
What did Rosa Parks do to get arrested by the police and resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
1. She refused to give up her seat.
(100 points)
This religion founded by a man who reported being visited by the angel Gabriel, which later, he became a prophet and preach this religion. Malcolm X became a follower of this religion.
Islam
Double Questions (have to correctly answer all to get 200)
1. What organization did WEB Dubois created for civil rights?
2. Which state was WEB Dubois born in?
1. NAACP
2. Massachusetts
(200 points)
Which court case did Thurgood Marshall take part of? The decision made by the Supreme Court called for the desegregation of all public school in the United States.
Brown v. Board of Education
Double Questions (answer all questions correctly to get 200)
1. Who or what inspired MLK Jr. for his nonviolent activism?
2. Where was MLK Jr. assassinated?
1. Mahatma Gandhi or his Christian beliefs (accept one of the above)
2. Memphis, Tennessee
(200 points)
Which civil rights group did Rosa and her husband Raymond join? (hinted: this group is related to WEB Dubois)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
(answer all questions correctly to get 200 points)
1. Which state was Malcolm X born?
2. Is Malcolm X his real name (Yes or No)?
1. Nebraska
2. No
(300 points)
WEB Dubois' concept of an elite group of college educated African American to fight for the eradication of segregation.
What is The Talented Tenth?
Double Questions (each question=200, you can search this up within 30 seconds)
1. This was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court with regard to voting rights and racial desegregation in 1944. It overturned the Texas state law, including use of white primaries. Thurgood Marshall argued in this case before the Supreme Court.
2. The case arose after an African American family purchased a house in St. Louis that was subject to a restrictive covenant preventing "people of the Negro or Mongolian Race" from occupying. Thurgood Marshall argued in this case before the Supreme Court.
1. What is the Smith v. Allwright case?
2. What is the the Shelly v. Kraemer case?
Double questions (answer all correctly to get 300):
1. In his final years, MLK Jr. focus on opposing what?
2. Which prize did he won for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance? James Earl Carter Jr. also earned this prize
1. Poverty or the Vietnam War (accept one of the above)
2. Nobel Peace
Double Questions (if answer all questions correctly, get 400; each question = 100):
1. For national recognition, she earned this prize that was bestowed by the president of the United States.
2. She also earned this prize which is the highest ward given by the US legislative branch which bears "Mother Of The Modern Day Civil Rights Movement".
1. What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
2. What is the Congressional Gold Medal?
Double questions (each question = 100):
1. In his adolescence years, he often engaged in which types of activities and eventually being sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1946?
2. What makes Malcolm X a controversial figure?
1. larceny and breaking and entering
2. He was accused of preaching racism and violence.
Double Questions (have to answer all to get 400):
1. WEB Dubois is the first African American to earn a doctorate at this university.
2. This is one of main things that WEB Dubois fought against. This is the law the enforced racial segregation in the south of the US.
1. What is the Atlanta University?
2. What are Jim Crow laws?
(400 points)
This school is named for a former slave that escaped slavery in Maryland and known for may of his famous antislavery writings. One of his books is My Bondage and My Freedom. Thurgood Marshall went to this highschool.
Frederick Douglass
Double questions (each question = 200):
1. These Acts were resulted from Dr. Martin Luther King's actions such as the March on Washington and other public protests. One was anti-discriminatory and the other guaranteed voting rights.
2. This is an event that was held at Washington D.C. Known for having collective speeches of famous civil rights activists, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis.
1. What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1964?
2.What is the March on Washington?
Double Questions (each question = 200)
1. What city in Alabama did the bus boycott take place?
2. Shortly after the boycott, which city did she move to?
1. Montgomery
2. Detroit
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Name this Islamic religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad. Malcolm became a member of this group while he was in prison.
Nation of Islam
Double questions (each question = 300; you can search this up within 30 seconds):
1. Which movement did WEB Dubois take parts of? This movement is a worldwide movement wished to strengthen bonds of groups of African descent to bring independent for African colonies from European powers.
2. This is a collection of essays and is a seminal work in African-American literature writen by WEB Dubois.
1. Pan-Africanism
2. What is The Souls of Black Folk?
Triple Questions (700 if get all right; individually, each question = 200; you search this up within 20 seconds):
1. In whose presidency did Thurgood Mashall retire?
2. Where was he born?
3. Who succeeded him in his position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?
1. George H.W. Bush
2. Baltimore, Maryland
3. Clarence Thomas
(500 points)
This is a place where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went for college. It used to be a private historically black men's liberal arts college.
What is the Morehouse College?
Double Questions (answer all questions correctly to get 500, you can search this up within 30 seconds):
1. Where was Rosa Parks born?
2. Which NAACP leader worked with Rosa Parks, however, he maintained that "women don't need to be nowhere but in the kitchen"?
1. Tuskegee, Alabama (have to give the exact answer; can't accept only "Alabama")
2. Edgar Nixon
Triple Questions (correctly answer all to get 500; you can search this up within 20 seconds):
1. How did Malcolm X die?
2. Which branch of Islam did he follow?
3. What happened to Malcolm's father?
1. He was assassinated.
2. Sunni Islam.
3. He was threaten by the KKK and murdered by the Black Legionaries.