What is outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring voting rights to them?
100
A war in southeast asia aimed at preventing the spread of Communism.
What is the Vietnam War?
100
The first African-American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
100
The amendment to the U.S. constitution that ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
a far-right organization in the United States, which has advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
A type of movement characterized by civil resistance, boycots, sit-ins and little or no aggression.
What is a nonviolent movement?
200
A wall started in 1961.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
The African-American man who's unjustified beating by four white cops started the L.A. Race Riots in 1992.
Who is Rodney King?
200
The 1954 supreme court case which overturned the "separate but equal" ruling that claimed racial segregation was a constitutional doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
A controversial movie by DW Griffith which portrayed African-Americans as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force.
What is The Birth of a Nation?
300
The year the civil rights act was passed.
What is 1964?
300
The first man in space.
What is Yuri Gagarin?
300
The year Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room.
What is 1968?
300
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.
What is NAACP
300
the practice of killing people by extrajudicial mob action which was not made a federal crime until 1920 due to strong opposition from the south.
What is lynching?
400
The most significant boycott of the civil rights movement. Also one of the first and most successful.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
400
The year 92 year old Rosa Parks died.
What is 2005
400
The author of Up From Slavery, first published in 1901.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
The 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld state-mandated discrimination in public transportation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500
a group who's goal was to enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from oppression by white Americans.
What is the Black Power Movement?
500
The date of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C
What is August 28th 1963?
500
The senator who introduced the Civil Rights Act of 2008 which among other things ensured that federal funds were not used to subsidize discrimination.
Who is Edward Kennedy?
500
Born in 1868, this man was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard. He was an important person in the Civil Rights Movement and helped create the NAACP
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
500
The 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld state-mandated discrimination in public transportation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.