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

Describe the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answers subject to Miss Campbell

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

Who was the first black Supreme Court Justice?

Who is Thurgood Marshall

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

What does Juneteenth celebrate?

What is the freeing of the slaves, starting in Galveston Texas

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
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

What is the Emancipation Proclamation

What is an act put in place by Abraham Lincoln giving freedom to slaves

500

Who were the Little Rock 9?

Who are 9 black high schoolers that enrolled in a formerly all white school

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 did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?

What is prohibit any tests/taxes put in place to prevent black people from voting

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