Civil Rights Leaders
Who in 1963, gave the famous “ I have dream” speech?
What is Martin Luther King
In 1969 what SIU building was burnt down?
What is Old Main building
Jim Crow Laws were put in place to?
What is keep African Americans from getting their full equality?
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
What is Rosa Parks
What does segregation mean?
What is each race is kept separate from each other
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and should blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them.
What is Malcolm X
What were the three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement called?
What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches
In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?
What is stated that separate but equal was constitutional
What terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
What is the Ku Klux Klan
The earliest recorded protest against slavery was by who?
What is the Quakers in 1688.
What Civil rights leader thought that segregation should end now! Blacks should not have to wait for or try to earn their equality from whites. Blacks should also have the option to have whatever type education they wanted whether it be practical or academic.
What is W.E.B. Du Bois
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?
What is escape segregation & find better jobs
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
What is the segregation of American public schools was illegal
Who's death lead to the Selma to Montgomery marches?
What is Jimmie Lee Jackson
Who was the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era?
What is Jackie Robinson
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust blacks should be morally obligated to not follow it but accept the consequences. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.
What is Martin Luther King
What was the shooting of the Carbondale Black Panthers called?
What is 778 Bullets
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to?
What is end segregation based on race
Who was the 15 year old girl who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery?
What is Claudette Colvin
The Montgomery’s black community launched a what is response to Rosa Park's arrest?
What is Bus Boycott
What civil rights leader wanted blacks to work hard and earn their equality from whites. He did not believe in pushing for the ending of segregation or equal rights now. He thought blacks should focus on working hard, saving money & getting a practical education so they would be superior laborers.
What is Booker T Washington
On what day did some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80, where they got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.
What is Bloody Sunday
Literacy tests, Poll Taxes & the Grandfather Clause was put into place to?
What is prevent African Americans from voting
Who were the victims of a bombing of their home in Florida for being Civil Rights Activists?
What is Harry And Harriette Moore
Who was elected as the 44th President of the United States?
What is Barack Obama?