Civil Rights 1
Who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the first African American to receive the award
Gwendolyn Brooks
What war occured in 1950–1953?
Korean War
In 1954, the White Citizens’ Councils formed in the South to harass blacks engaged in civil rights activities through economic intimidation.
True or False
True
In 1956, what show premiered on television; the second African American to host a national television series?
The Nat King Cole Show
In 1953, First black bus boycott was in what city and state?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Who became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Ralph Bunche
What war occured in 1956–1975?
Vietnam War
In 1959, who organized the Negro American Labor Council to combat discrimination in the AFL-CIO
A. Philip Randolph
The Albany Movement began in what city and state?
Albany, Georgia
What year was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
1963,
Who published Invisible Man and won the National Book Award; the first African American to receive the award
Ralph Ellison
In 1955, a Thirteen-month bus boycott to desegregate the city’s buses began. What was the name of the boycott?
Montgomery bus boycott
What is city MLK Jr. was arrested in during a sit-in at Rich's Department Store in 1960?
Atlanta
In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote what letter in response to religious leaders who criticized his tactics
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
In 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower sent U.S. troops and nationalized the Arkansas Guard to protect nine black students trying to attend Central High Schook in which city and state?
Little Rock, Arkansas
What was the name of the Fourteen-year-old who was murdered in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Emmett Till
In 1959, Berry Gordy founded what in Detroit, Michigan
Motown Records
1960, Martin Luther King junior endorsed which president during elections and helped to secure the black vote?
John F. Kennedy
Lorraine Hansberry’s literary work was the first play by an African American woman on Broadway. What is the name of the play?
A Raisin in the Sun
James Baldwin published which book?
The Fire Next Time
In 1956, who was enrolled as the first black student at the University of Alabama and was expelled four days later
Autherine Lucy
In 1956, a “Southern Manifesto” signed by 101 Southern U.S. senators and representatives to encourage resistance to a Court decision. What is the name of the court decision?
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision
Thurgood Marshall traveled to what country to advise a newly independent nations on civil rights and economic development.
East Africa
Youth Marches for Integrated Schools held in Washington, D.C. between what years?
1958–1959
In 1960, Martin Luther King, Jr., arrested during a sit-in at Rich’s Department Store. who arranged his release?
Robert Kennedy