Civil Rights leaders
Historical Events
Jim Crow laws
Important people
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100

Union leader who fought for the right of California farm workers by using non-violent tactics

Who is Cesar Chavez

100

The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities

What is diners/ lunch counters

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

Who was the US senator and presidential candidate who was a strong supporter of The Civil Rights Movement and the California grape farmers before his assassination in 1968?

What is Robert F. Kennedy 

200
What does desegregation mean?
What is the races are not kept separated from each other
300

American President who started the Great Society programs to try to end racial injustice & poverty

Who is Lyndon B. Johnson

300

Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement

What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?

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 and were behind the Birmingham church bombing? 

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

A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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.

Who 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

President who called the racial inequality a "moral issue" and supported the movement before being assassinated

What is John F. Kennedy

500

The stopping of nine black students from entering Central High School in Arkansas after the passing of Brown v. Board?

What is the Little Rock crisis

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 B. Johnson

500
What religious group did Malcolm X belong to?
What is the Nation of Islam
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