Miscellaneous
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Era
Politics
Entertainment
100
W.E.B. Du Bois
This famous intellectual wrote The Souls of Black Folk. A) Martin Luther King Jr. B)W.E.B. Du Bois C) Malcolm X
100
False
True or False, Martin Luther King Jr. died in a car accident.
100
20th
The Civil Rights Era took place in the middle of what century?
100
Barack Obama
Who was the United States first black president?
100
Tiger Woods
Who was the first black golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
200
Montgomery
In what city in Alabama did MLK Jr. lead a successful bus boycott?
200
False
True or False, the Civil Rights Movement largely took place in the North?
200
1863
In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
200
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first black baseball player to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era?
300
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This court case established the racist idea of "separate but equal."
300
True
True or False, MLK JR. won a Nobel Peace Prize?
300
Jim Crow
What was the name of the legal and cultural system and laws of oppression and racism in the South which treated blacks as second class Americans?
300
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What does NAACP stand for?
300
Muhammad Ali
This boxer was originally named Cassius Clay.
400
Malcolm X
What black leader during the Civil Rights Era thought that violence may be necessary to combat racism and police brutality?
400
Atlanta
In what city was MLk Jr. born?
400
Claudette Colvin
This woman almost was the leading figure of a bus boycott before Rosa Parks.
400
Brown vs. Board of Education
In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare (in 1954) that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
400
1980
Black Entertainment Television (BET) was started in what year? 1975, 1980, 1990, 2001
500
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Martin Luther King Jr. was the first president of what civil rights group?
500
Corretta Scott King
MLK Jr. was married to who?
500
1964
In what year was the landmark Civil Rights Act passed?
500
Illinois
What state was Barack Obama a senator of from 1997-2004
500
The Harlem Renaissance
What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
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