Civil Rights leaders
Historical Events
Jim Crow laws
Important people
Misc
100
Who in 1963, gave the famous “ I have dream” speech?
What is Martin Luther King
100
The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities
What is dinners/ restaurants
100
Jim Crow laws were put into place to?
What is keep African Americans from getting their full equality
100
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
What is Rosa Parks
100
What does segregation mean?
What is each race is kept separate from each other
200
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and should blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them.
What is Malcolm X
200
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
What is Civil Rights act of 1964
200
In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?
What is stated that separate but equal was constitutional
200

What was women fighting for during the Civil Rights Movement?

What is Higher Education Opportunities and the right to choose over their own body

200

First women to serve as as U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Sandra Day O'Connor 

300

What Civil rights leader protested by going into 23 days of fasting to request better working conditions for Latino farm workers.

What is Cesar Chavez

300
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?
What is escape segregation & find better jobs
300
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
What is the segregation of American public schools was illegal
300
What terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
What is the Ku Klux Klan
300
Sometimes it is necessary to disobey unjust laws and to work to have them changed. What statement most accurately reflects this idea?
What is civil disobedience
400
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust blacks should be morally obligated to not follow it but accept the consequences. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.
What is Martin Luther King
400
The Great Depression was hardest on blacks because?
What is blacks were the first to lose their jobs, and did not have financial savings to help them through the Great Depression
400
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to?
What is end segregation based on race
400

What was the name of the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was murdered for talking to a white woman? The photo of his corpse was published & shocked Americans into fighting for civil rights.

What is Emmett Till

400

Author of the book "Feminine Mystique", she sparked the second wave of American feminism

Who is Betty Friedan

500

What President of the
United States was a fervent advocate of the Civil Rights Movement AND unfortunately he did not signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

What is John F. Kennedy 

500
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s was a period when African Americans
What is blacks made important contributions in music, literature, & art
500
Literacy tests, Poll Taxes & the Grandfather Clause was put into place to?
What is prevent African Americans from voting
500
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
What is Lyndon Johnson
500
What religious group did Malcolm X belong to?
What is the Nation of Islam
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