Influential People
Vocabulary
Quotes
Important things that Happened
Misq.
100
Martin Luther King Jr. used a nonviolent protest which he learned for studying what great Indian leader?
What is Mahatma Gandhi.
100
What are freedoms guaranteed to every individual by the constitution?
Civil Rights
100
"I have a dream..."
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
100
What event that started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, started a revolution led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. ?
What is the Bus Boycott in Montgomery.
100
College students in Greensboro, NC demonstrated this method of passive resistance by sitting in a "whites only" restaurant and demanding service.
What is a sit-in
200
This man was the first African American baseball player to cross the "color line" in professional baseball.
What is Jackie Robinson.
200
What is a 1955 boycott that seulted in the intergration of Montgomery, Alabama bus system.
Montogomery Bus Boycott-
200
"By any means necessary..."
Who is Malcolm X?
200
How did Martin Luther King Jr. die?
What is he was shot.
200
Which president integrated the United States military?
Harry S. Truman
300
This person believed that you couldn't solve the problems of Racial Equality by peace but by violence.
What is Malcom X
300
What is the peaceful civil rights tactic used by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
passive resistance
300
"We must be the change we want to see in the world..."
Mahatma Ghandi
300
What happened to the miliarty during this time because of an order signed by President Truman?
What is it was desegregated
300
Where did Malcolm X travel before he denounced the anti-white beliefs of the Nation of Islam?
Mecca
400
This women refused to give up her seat to a white person and therefore was arrested.
What is Rosa Parks
400
What is the separation of people based on race?
Segregation
400
What Supreme Court Case ended segregation in Public Schools?
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
400
This type of passive resistance involves people taking long walks and drawing attention. After the one on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
March
500
To many people this man was the most influential person because of his famous speech, "I have a Dream"
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
500
The highest court in the land, which ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Supreme Court
500
Where did Martin Luther King Jr. die?
What is in Tennessee
500
This type of passive resistance is the refusal to use goods or services in an attempt to change a company's policies.
boycott
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