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100

Who led a boycott when refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?

Who is Rosa Parks

100

What does SNCC stand for?

What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee?

100

MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.

What is the March on Washington?

100

This group was well known for its opposition to racial integration. Its issues involved the protection of "European-American heritage" from those of other ethnicities.

What was the White Citizens' Council?

200

Who was the first president to publicly push for Civil Rights Legislation?

Who is JFK?

200

Who were the Little Rock Nine?

High Schoolers from Arkansas who worked to desegregate Little Rock Central

200
This was an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964to challenge the legitimacy of the white-only US Democratic Party.
What is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party?
200

How long did Montgomery Bus Boycott last?

over a year

300
Who was the president who was able to get the Civil Rights bill passed?
Who is Lyndon Johnson
300
Who was the president who sent troops in to Arkansas to help enforce integration of schools?
Who is Dwight Eisenhower
300
Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
300

Kimberle Crenshaw came up with the term INTERSECTIONALITY. What does that mean?

Multiple identities result in different combinations of discrimination and privilege

400

MLK was the leader of this Civil Rights organization.

the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

400
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
400

What is considered to be the "catalyst" of the Civil Rights Movement?

The murder of Emmett Till

400
This was the name of a campaign in the United States launched in June 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?
500

He was a big civil rights and Black nationalism leader, and a Muslim minister

Who is Malcolm X

500

How did Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus try to stop the integration of Little Rock Central?

Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block these students from entering high school.

500
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500

Which civil rights group primarily acted through the Courts and other Legislation?

NAACP

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