Whose writings and practices inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and other nonviolent civil rights protesters
What is Mohatma Gandhi
100
President In 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional..... In 1957 with National Guard troops later integrated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower
100
Which organization did Martin Luther King Jr. found?
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference
100
Name of the court case that the Supreme Court passed in 1954 officially ending legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs. Board of education Topeka, Kansas ?
100
Violent riots that occurred in this Neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1965. For six days, more than 50,000 black residents rioted to protest poverty, racism, and continued unemployment.
What is Watts Riots
200
In 1955 this women protested a Jim Crow law preventing her from sitting in the front of a bus.
What is Rosa Parks
200
To help James Meredith register for class. He mobilized the National Guard and sent federal troops to integrate the University of Mississippi campus.
Who is James Meredith
200
What does the NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People
200
A series of protests aimed at the desegregation of buses in the South beginning in 1961.
What is Freedom Rides
200
Where Dr.King rose to national fame after he took charge of the bus boycott in 1955
Where is Montgomery, Alabama
300
Who was the first leader of the SCLC?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
300
On July 2, 1964 at the White House The Civil Rights Act was signed into law by this President
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
300
Founded by James Farmer U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. On May 4, 1961 journeyed to the deep South in an effort to end segregation in interstate travel and testing segregated bus terminals.
What is C.O.R.E Congress of Racial Equality
300
A term for racist laws and social orders in the South that kept blacks separate from and subordinate to whites.
What is Jim Crow
300
Where a series of nonviolent protests took place in North Carolina in 1960 which led to the Woolworth department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Where is Greensboro North Carolina
400
Group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower.
What is The Little Rock 9
400
In August 6, 1965 He Passed the Voting Rights Act. It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
400
Founded in early 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, to capitalize on the success of a surge of sit-ins in Southern college towns, where black STUDENTS refused to leave restaurants in which they were denied service based on their race.
What is SNCC-Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
400
One of the largest political rallies in American history, during which more than 200,000 blacks and whites gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963
What is The March on Washington
400
Where Martin Luther King was shot Dead on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel room
Where is Memphis Tennessee
500
Third Chairmen of SNCC in 1966. Advocated Black Power, a shift from Non-violence. Later Founded Black Panther movement.
What is Stokely Carmichael
500
In January 1st 1863 he passed the very first Civil Rights legislation called the Emancipation Proclamation. This executive order proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
500
Civil rights organizations that did not employ nonviolent methods of protest
What is the Black Panthers
500
When police attacked thousands of peaceful black protesters petitioning the government for the right to vote, in Selma, Alabama. “______,” as the incident came to be called, shocked northerners.
What is "Bloody Sunday"
500
Name of the state where James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were found in 1964. Also state where , Medgar Evers, civil rights activist and leader of the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP, was murdered.