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100

This Civil Rights Leader was the leader of the SCLC

Who is Dr. King?

100
This event included children to fight against discrimination 

What is the Children's Crusade?

100

This SC case declared segregation of schools is unconstitutional 

What is Brown V Board (1954)?

100

Protest in which the protesters just sit

What is a sit in?
100

Dr. King preached these types of demonstrations to get the Movement's message across

What is Nonviolent Resistance?

200

This person was inspired to resist white pressure due to Emmett Till's death

Who is Rosa Parks

200

This boycott was in response to Parks's arrest

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

200

This case informed segregated schools to desegregate with "deliberate speed"

What is Brown II (1955)?

200

This group named Dr. King as its first leader

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?

200

This is the name of the segregation laws in the south

What are Jim Crow Laws?
300

This guy founded CORE

Who is James Farmer?

300

These students went to school by being escorted by the National Guard that was federalized in 1957

What is the Little Rock Nine?

300

This case declared segregation on interstate busing illegal

What is Morgan V. Virginia (1946)?

300

Organization that called for students to partake in the CRM, such as John Lewis

What is SNCC?

300

This was the name for the protestors in the Montgomery Bus Boycott

What are freedom riders?

400

In the Brown V Board case, this guy was a lawyer for the NAACP

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

400

This Civil Rights Act made segregation of ALL public facilities illegal

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

400

State law schools must admit black applicants, even if a separate black school exists 



What is Sweatt V. Painter (1950)?

400

What does CORE mean?

Congress of Racial Equality 

400

This guy arrested 959 African American Children 

Who is Eugene "Bull" Connor?

500

This person was a Air Force veteran that sued so he could go to Ole Miss

Who is James Meredith?

500

This Civil Rights Act gave Congress power over states for desegregation purposes

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

500

This case upheld Louisiana's "separate but equal" doctrine

What is Plessy V Ferguson (1896)?

500

Dr. King preached this early on the CRM

What is Civil Disobedience?

500

This Gov. defied desegregating University of Alabama 

Who is Gov. George Wallace?

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