Civil Rights
Who became the first African American President of the United States in 2008?
Barack Obama
Sit-in protests primarily targeted which facilities?
Diners, restaurants, cinemas, transport stations
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to...
End segregation based on race
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
What does segregation mean?
When each race is kept separate from each other
What is the term for when a group of people unlawfully kill a person without a legal trial, usually by hanging?
Lynching
What modern movement began after the death of Trayvon Martin and protests against police brutality?
Black Lives Matter
In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?
That 'separate but equal' was constitutional
Who was the first African-American child to attend a white elementary school in Louisiana?
Ruby Bridges
What does desegregation mean?
When the races are not kept separated from each other
What city became known as “Bombingham” due to frequent attacks on Black homes and churches?
Points only awarded for naming the city AND state.
In 1787, different states debated whether African Americans would be counted towards the population for the census. As a 'compromise', they decided that one enslaved African American person was equal to...
Three-fifths (60%) of a freed person
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
Segregation of American public schools was illegal
What terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
Ku Klux Klan
Sometimes it is necessary to disobey laws deemed to be unjust. What statement/term most accurately reflects this idea?
Civil disobedience
What civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality, blacks should not use violence?
Martin Luther King
Approximately how many people attend Martin Luther King's March on Washington?
250,000 (Points awarded for being between 225-275k)
What does the term 'Jim Crow laws' refer to?
Laws which prevented African Americans from getting their full equality
What was the name of the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was murdered for talking to a white woman in 1955? The photo of his corpse was published & shocked Americans into fighting for civil rights.
Emmett Till
What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights"?
The Declaration of Independence
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
Bonus 100 points for getting the correct year!
1964 Civil Rights Act
List two methods used to restrict African Americans from voting.
Literacy tests, poll taxes
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
Lyndon Johnson
List the seven slave states in the southern United States.
100 points per correct answer, 1000 for getting all seven!!
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas