During this war, the honorable service of African-Americans such as the Tuskegee Airmen helped spark the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is World War II?
100
This kind of resistance was advocated by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr..
What is non-violent resistance?
100
This leader of the Civil Rights Movement gained his notoriety from his work during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
Passed in 1965, this law made it illegal to deny African-Americans the right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
100
As of 1966, SNCC officially embraced this tactic going against its name.
What is violence?
200
The integration of Major League Baseball was initiated when this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
200
The arrest of this person was the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
He was a Civil Rights leader who belonged to the group called the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
Segregation in these places was ended by the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What are public accommodations?
200
This was the nickname of Birmingham, AL due to the racial violence that had plagued the city since World War I.
What is "Bombingham"?
300
This organization provided the lawyers that argued the Brown v. the Board of Education case.
Who is the NAACP?
300
This group pioneered the tactic of sit-ins to protest segregation of public accommodations.
What is SNCC?
300
This president called out the Arkansas National Guard to protect support the integration of public schools in Arkansas.
Who is President Eisenhower?
300
The civil rights campaign in this city was covered by the news media and led eventually to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is Birmingham Campaign?
300
This was the full name of the SCLC.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
400
The Board of Education in this city was on the wrong end of the Brown v. the Board of Ed. decision in 1954.
What is Topeka, KS?
400
The goal of this 1961 campaign was to test if interstate transportation had actually been desegregated.
What are the Freedom Rides?
400
He was the segregationist police chief of Birmingham, AL who ordered the fire hoses be turned on child protestors.
Who is Eugene "Bull" Connor?
400
This group developed in the mid-1960's to combat de facto segregation in urban areas and subscribed to the philosophy of "black power"
Who are the Black Panthers?
400
This uprising in 1965 demonstrated that the Civil Rights Movement had not done enough to address the social and economic discrimination in urban areas.
What is the Watts Riots?
500
This civil rights group was formed during WWII in Chicago in 1943.
What is the Congress on Racial Equality?
500
The March from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 was to protest the arrest of African-Americans who were trying to do this.
What is registering to vote?
500
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is LBJ?
500
Brown v. The Board of Education desegregated public schools in the US and overturned this earlier Supreme Court decision.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
This governor of Arkansas tried to prevent the integration of Little Rock High School by calling out the National Guard.