Early Demands for Equality
Laws in the south that aimed at separating the races.
What are Jim Crow Laws or Segregation?
John Lewis was one of the few members that challenged the interstate transportation system on this famous protest.
What are the Freedom Riders?
Young leader assassinated at the age of 39 after switching his views on protesting, murdered by his own organization after leaving.
Who is Malcolm X?
Young women who refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This video game is infamous for the line "I used to be an adventurer too, then I took an arrow to the knee"
What is Elder Scrolls Skyrim?
The number of African American students that were involved in the desegregation of Central High in Arkansas.
What are 9 students?
What does SNCC stand for?
What is The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
Movement that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality in the 1960s.
What is "Black Power"?
President that signs into law the CRA (1964) and VRA (1965).
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This invention, which we have access to across the globe and use everyday, was released to the public in 1993.
What is the internet?
What organization challenged segregation in schools and took the case all the way to the Supreme court?
What is the NAACP?
The Greensburo 4 staged what form of protest at lunch counters?
What is a sit-in?
What is the Kerner Commission?
Leader that gave a speech at the Montgomery bus Boycott that propelled the movement in to nonviolence.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
Taylor Swift has this many eras
What is 11?
Type of segregation that is done through cultural or economic means.
What is De Facto Segregation?
Who is James Meredith?
Act that banned infringements on voting rights in all 50 states. (Must include the year too)
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
African American attorney that argued Brown v Board and eventually became a supreme court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This person was the original bus ride who would not give up their seat.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
What does CORE stand for?
What is Congress of Racial Equality?
Police Chief that ordered the use of dogs and fire hoses on innocent protesters in Birmingham.
Who is T. Eugene "Bull" Connor?
The law that made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race when considering legal tenants for housing.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
Young Reverend killed in Selma after being beaten to death by extremists.
Who is Reverend Reeb?
The superhero Batman has been portrayed in live action TV series and movies since the 1940s. How many actors have played him? (Within 1)
What is 11?