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100
Born January 15, 1929, I attended MoreHouse College in my home town Atlanta after I graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. I said, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
100
This court case declared separate but equal unconstitutional.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
100
381 days where no African Americans rode city busses
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
100
Term for the group of students that the federal government hesitated to help integrate into Central High School
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
100
I signed the Civil Rights Act into law?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
I am a Black Muslim. I preached black pride and nationalism. The people who followed me were also members of the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcom X
200
This means the blending of all people as equals; the opposite of segregation.
What is integration?
200
Method of protest in which college students protested segregation at lunch counters by sitting at “whites only” counters and refusing to leave.
What is sit-ins?
200
What was the Greensboro sit-ins?
A 1960 protest in which four black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter in a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and demanded service.
200
Political party formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale that called for black power.
What is the Black Panther Party?
300
I am known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. I also sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
The primary goals of the Civil Rights movement were to end this.
What is to end racial segregation and secure equal rights for all Americans.
300
What did police chief, Eugene "Bull" Connor do to African-American children?
He turned fire hoses and police doges on children and arrested over 2000 children.
300
What year was Emmett Till killed for whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi?
What is 1955
300
How many students were sent to intergrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansa?
What is nine
400
On her 23rd birthday, she agreed to coordinate a second wave of Freedom Rides. She kept the movement alive because she believed it to be very important.
Who is Diane Nash?
400
List two effects of Segregation.
Separate public facilities like bathrooms, separate educational facilities like schools.
400
In 1963, 250,000 people marched on Washington for what reason?
What is to pass civil rights laws?
400
What event is generally acknowledged as the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
President who protected activists trying to end interstate bus segregation only after activists were attacked.
What is John F. Kennedy?
500
This lawyer for the NAACP successfully argued that segregation in public schools was psychologically damaging for African American students, and should be illegal in Brown v. Board of Education
Who is Thurgood Marshall
500
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination on hiring based on what? (Name all 4)
What is Race, Color, National Origin, and Religion?
500
Seven African American students and six white students left from Washington D.C on May 4, 1961 in hopes for desegregation.
What are Freedom Rides?
500
What was the last name of the girl in Topeka, Kansas who wanted to desegregate schools?
Who is Brown?
500
This was the city in which Martin Luther King and other activists practiced nonviolent resistance by starting a successful bus boycott.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
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