Key Terms
LANDMARK EVENTS
Key Figures
SELMA
Jim Crow & Law
100
The practice of keeping different racial groups separate in public places.... EXTRA 100 IF YOU TELL ME THE OPPOSITE KEY TERM!!
Segregation - Integration
100
The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
100
The seamstress and NAACP member whose arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
100
Where was this specific bridge where marchers were attacked by state troopers during "Bloody Sunday."
Alabama
100
These laws in the South enforced segregation and made it difficult for Black citizens to vote... EXTRA 100 IF YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF THESE LAWS
Jim Crow Laws... Literacy Tests... Poll Taxes
200
A form of protest where people refuse to buy or use a service to pressure for change.
Boycott
200
This event, sparked by Rosa Parks, lasted over a year and ended bus segregation in Montgomery.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
200
The 14-year-old boy from Chicago whose 1955 murder in Mississippi "galvanized" the movement.
Emmett Till
200
Why did MLK and the movement want a "confrontational" Sheriff of Selma?
They knew what his actions would be, and they could showcase it to the news!
200
This law banned discrimination in public places like hotels and restaurants... EXTRA 200 IF YOU TELL ME WHAT YEAR!!!
Civil Rights Act - 1964
300
The philosophy of using peaceful means and refusing to use physical force to bring about social change.
Nonviolence
300
WOMP WOMP ...
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300
The Governor of ________ who used the National Guard to block the Little Rock Nine.
Arkansas
300
How many country regisrtars was Annie Lee Cooper required to name before she could be registered to vote?
300
This law outlawed literacy tests and sent federal examiners to the South to protect voters... EXTRA 200 IF YOU TELL ME WHAT YEAR
Voting Rights Act 1965
400
This term describes the peaceful refusal to obey certain laws as a form of protest against injustice.
Civil Disobedience
400
The 1963 event where 250,000 people gathered to hear the "I Have a Dream" speech.
March on Washington
400
The NAACP lawyer who argued Brown v. Board and later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
400
WEEEEE WOOOOO WEEEE WOOOO THE POINTS POLICE HAVE SHOWN UP!
+200 POINTS
400
This 1968 law prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Fair Housing Act
500
WEEEEE WOOOOO WEEEE WOOOO THE POINTS POLICE HAVE SHOWN UP!
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500
DOUBLE POINTS RIGHT OR WRONG!!
Why was “Bloody Sunday” significant in shifting national support for voting rights?
Graphic news coverage of peaceful protesters being attacked increased public pressure on Congress to act
500
What made the Emmett Till case a turning point in awareness of racial violence?
The photos of his body and his mother’s choice to show it publicly shocked the nation?
500
This major international award was given to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the very beginning of the film.
Nobel Peace Prize
500
This was the name of the massive movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the North and West to escape Jim Crow laws.
Great migration