Leader of the farm worker's struggle for equal treatment in California in the 1960s.
Who is Ceasar Chavez?
100
Site of the 1890 massacre of Lakota people by U.S. cavalry troops after a misunderstanding surrounding the "ghost dance."
What is Wounded Knee Creek?
100
Forcing a group of people to give up their culture & traditions in order to adopt those of another race.
What is assimilation?
100
The man responsible for dividing reservation land into 160 acre plots to give to Native Americans in the Dakota territory to try to prevent their extermination.
Who is Henry Dawes?
100
The types of vehicles Ms. A and Ms. Stinson drive.
What is a Ford pick-up truck and a Honda civic?
200
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
9 black students were at first denied the right to enroll at an all white high school in this Arkansas city.
What is Little Rock?
200
This term means "separation of the races".
What is segregation?
200
He was the lawyer who presented the Brown case to the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
School districts taking all practical steps to eliminate segregation could end busing, according to this Supreme Court case.
What is Dowell v. Oklahoma City BOE?
300
This was the number of justices that voted for the Topeka Board of Education.
What is 9?
300
President John F. Kennedy sent troops and federal marshalls to ensure that James Meredith could attend this school.
What is University of Mississippi?
300
Segregation existed for a long time in transportation, education, _________________ and recreation.
What is housing?
300
Chief Justice who wrote the court opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Who is Earl Warren?
300
This section of the country was slow to accept desegregation.
What is the south?
400
When the Supreme Court ordered all public schools to end segregation, over 100 members of this lawmaking body reacted in protest.
What is Congress?
400
The public schools in this Virginia country once closed to avoid integration.
What is Prince Edward County, VA?
400
This term means "mixing of the races" as in public schools.
What is integration?
400
He used army paratroopers to help integrate Central High School.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
This organization helps people who face discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
500
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, thereby rejecting the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education- Topeka?
500
Governor George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door" to try to prevent the integration of this university.
What is the University of Alabama?
500
The transporting of black and white students to achieve integration within school districts is known as...
What is busing?
500
She was denied admission to the school located closest to where she lived.
Who is Linda Brown?
500
Oliver Brown accused the BOE of Topeka of violating the equal protection clause of this amendment.