Organizations
All of the following are organizations in the CRM except for one. Which one?
SNCC
NWEA
SCLC
CORE
NAACP
NWEA
Seattle students enacted a boycott when they...
refused to go to school & went to freedom schools instead.
This high school in Seattle reflected on the impact of Seattle's bussing program and integration.
Roosevelt High School
This civil rights leader gave a famous speech during the March on Washington in 1963.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What did students learn about at "Freedom Schools" during the Seattle School Boycott of 1966?
Black history & Civil Rights
SNCC stood for ........Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It was responsible for the Freedom Riders and voter registration drives.
Student
The battle for civil rights in the court room isn't always successful. This strategy backfired in this court case that ultimately ruled that "separate is equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
This is state where the Little Rock Nine went to Central High School. (Spelling counts)
Arkansas
The ......Four enacted a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter to protest segregation.
Greensboro
Barack Obama, was elected as the .......th president of the United States.
44th
Thurgood Marshall worked with this civil rights organization in the court case Brown v. Board of Education
NAACP
What is the name of the strategy that asks you to "put your body in harm's way" to draw attention to a cause?
Non-violent direct action.
This state is where the Greensboro Four had their famous "sit in"
North Carolina
This person saw the potential of young people and founded SNCC
Ella Baker
This is the year that Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to run for president.
1972
The Seattle schools boycott was supported by CORE, the name stands for...
Congress for Racial Equity
This strategy requires a lot of courage and self-control as you are physically taking up a space to make your point. Woolworth's lost money because of this strategy & ultimately integrated.
Sit-in
This is the state where Linda Brown's father filed the famous lawsuit what would become Brown v. Board
Kansas
This was the name of Linda Brown's father who filed the lawsuit in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
Oliver
Minni-Jean Brown was one of the....
Little Rock 9
This the Civil Rights organization that was led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
While not always within one's control, this strategy, when used effectively, can influence change by tapping into the general public's empathy. This can rally public support for a cause.
Media attention
The first bus of "Freedom Riders" left this location and drove south.
Washington D.C.
This student didn't have a phone and was forced to face the white mob alone on her first day of school.
Elizabeth Eckford
Melba Patillo Beals wrote a memoir about her experiences at Central High called...
Warriors Don't Cry