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

This leader joined forces with Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equal rights until he was assassinated in 1968.

Who is Robert (Bobby) Kennedy?

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

This person was shot and killed in 1968 and was a strong ally of Civil Rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez

Who is Robert (Bobby) Kennedy? 

200

What does nonviolent resistance mean?

A method of protest that is peaceful, without the use of violence.

300

This civil rights leader gets credit for starting the montgomery bus boycott in 1955.

Who is Rosa Parks?

300

This movement lasted 381 days and resulted in the desegregation of public transportation throughout the United States?

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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
When nine black students attempted to integrate a high school in Arkansas and needed the protection of the national guard as a white mob was chanting lynch lynch them! They became known as?

What is the Little Rock Nine!

400

The main goals of the civil rights movement was to? (three)

What is to end segregation based on race, end discrimination in the workplace, and to end voting restrictions for black people so they could vote.

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
What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights
What is Declaration of Independence
500

This leader was a part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) What was the main purpose of the SCLC?

Who is Martin Luther King Jr. What is the Main goal was to stage nonviolent demonstrations for African American rights.

500

What was the primary goal of the Civil Rights Movement? Also, name three successful achievements of the Civil Rights Movement?

What is end discrimination and segregation in all public places. (Also, to outlaw voting restrictions)

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, The Loving V Miranda legalizing interracial marriage, and brown v board ruling outlawing segregation in public schools.

500

Three primary voting restrictions were put into place to prevent African Americans from voting. What were they and how did they stop black people from voting?

 What is the Literacy test, Poll Tax & the Grandfather Clause.

The literacy test prevented them from voting because most didn't receive an education

The poll tax because most blacks didn't get paid and worked as sharecroppers

The grandfather clause because most blacks couldn't prove their ancestors voted because they were slaves.

500

What United States president signed the Civil Rights acts? Name each civil rights act and explain what they did?

Who is Lyndon Johnson?

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? (Banned discrimination in the workplace and in all public places.)

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1965? (Banned voting restrictions throughout the nation)

500

What religious group did Malcolm X belong to? Describe Malcolm X and his youth.  

What is the Nation of Islam.

What is he was a imprisoned for armed robbery, spent ten years in prison, and grew up in a divorced household. Also, his mother was killed by a white man.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

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