The Civil Rights Movement's crowning achievement in court that stopped segregation in schools.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
100
African-American man who broke many segregation boundaries in the world of sports prior to the civil rights movement in the 50's and 60's.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
Before the Brown vs. Board of Education court case, schools were set up in this manner.
What is segregated black and white schools?
100
The event that took place in December of ’55 involving Rosa Park’s retaliation of refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, which then led to thousands of people in Alabama to not ride the city bus in support of black civil rights.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
100
This many people marched on Washington, D.C. during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is 250,000 people?
200
A slave in Missouri, sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived for a time in a "free" territory. The Court ruled against him, saying that under the Constitution, he was his master's property.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford case?
200
Born an African-American who was seen as one of the most influential men in history of civil right but is looked upon as teaching black supremacy and anti-Semitism, later assassinated.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
The father of an eight year old black girl complained to the board that having segregated schools was unfair, and that having to make his daughter ride a bus across town just to get to school was not civilly sound. This then resulted in a court case.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
The 14 year old African-American boy was inhumanely punished for whistling at a white woman.
What is the lynching of Emmett Till?
200
The forced enrollment of an African American student caused a riot at this university.
What is University of Mississippi; (Ole' Miss) ?
300
The court case where a black man was charged with getting into a train for white people only.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
300
African-American woman who is looked upon as a strong activist who refused to give up her seat for a white person and is seen as the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
The group of black students that attempted to graduate from an all white high school.
Who were the Little Rock nine?
300
This happened outside Medgar Evers house due to the cause of three KKK members.
What is the 1963 murder of the Mississippi branch NAACP leader?
300
Laws enforcing segregation in the southern states.
What are black codes?
400
The case of an African-American boy being murdered after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
What is the Emmett Till case?
400
African-American civil rights activist known for his nonviolent protest learned by studying Ghandi, and was also the youngest man to earn a Nobel Peace Prize at age 35, and was later then assassinated.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr. ?
400
The name of a campaign in the United States launched in June of 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters.
What is the Freedom Summer?
400
Four black girls died during this event in September of ’63.
What is the bombing of Birmingham black church?
400
This organization fought in the courts and on the street as the main pro-integration organization. Some members included Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.
What is the NAACP?
500
Armed soldiers had been used to prevent, and assist, desegregation of nine African-Americans in an all-white school.
What is Little Rock Highschool?
500
Was an associate justice on the US supreme court and first African American to do so. Known mostly for his early work with the NAACP as a lawyer and his most famous case, Brown Vs. The Board of Education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
The main rule that the Brown vs. Board of Education established after the court case occurred.
What is segregation being unjust?
500
On February 21st of 1965, Malcolm X is assassinated by the Black Muslims for this reason.
What is the act of Malcolm X splitting off from Elijah Muhammad’s Black Muslims, or the Nation of Islam, and their belief in integration and nonviolence?
500
These laws included poll taxes and literacy tests, and were the main reason that segregation was so strong in the South.