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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
We were students involved in the desegregation of a high school. Our entrance into the school in 1957 sparked a nationwide crisis when Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent us from entering.
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
This type of protest became popular among Black students in the 1960s.
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
What magazine published its first issue in 1945?
What is Ebony Magazine
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
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination on hiring based on what? (Name all 4)
What is Race, Color, National Origin, and Religion?
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 my 23rd birthday, I agreed to coordinate a second wave of Freedom Rides. I kept the movement alieve because I believed it to be very important.
Who is Diane Nash?
400
"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." Who said this?
What is Medgar Evers
400
In 1963, 250,000 people marched on Washington for what reason?
What is to pass civil rights laws?
400
What year was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed?
What is 1957
400
What famous Civil Rights Activist was murder in Jackson Mississippi in 1963?
What is Medgar Evers
500
I was the first African American Supreme Court Justice. I said, "Segreated schools could never be 'equal.'
Who is Thurgood Marshall
500
"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for." Who said this?
What is Thurgood Marshall
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 year did President Dwight D. Eisenhower sign a Civil Rights Act?
What is 1957 or 1960
500
Who founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California?
What is Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
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