On December 1, 1955, this person was arrested for not giving up a seat on a bus to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This is when blacks would stay at a restaurant and refuse to leave.
What is a Sit-in?
100
1954
Brown vs. The Board of Education verdict outlaws segregation.
What is the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?
100
This is what the NAACP stands for.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
100
This person founded the group "The Black Panthers."
Who is Malcolm X?
200
Wrote the “I Have a Dream” Speech and believed in a society where character, rather than color, prevails.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
This is when blacks organized long walks down streets in large groups.
What are marches?
200
1914
War in Europe brings in the United States. Blacks fight again in segregated units and are treated better by the European citizens than by their fellow white American soldiers.
What is World War I?
200
This is the state where the NAACP was formed.
What is Maryland?
200
This person ran for president in 2004.
Who is Al Sharpton?
300
This person was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
This is when blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride on public buses for 381 days.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
1862
The northern and southern states fight over slavery in the United States. Blacks join the northern army in segregated units, but are not allowed to fight on the front lines.
What is the Civil War?
300
She was a member of the NAACP's Montgomery chapter.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
This person was mentioned the first day of the Civil Rights Unit and he was a radical, but you have not been given notes about him. *He was with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis when he was assassinated.
Who is Jesse Jackson?
400
This person worked as a tailor’s assistant.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
This is the name of the speech that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave.
What is the "I Have a Dream" Speech?
400
1920-1930
A rise in the popularity of black art, music, literature, and poetry.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This is what the NAACP does.
What is governs local actions for civil rights communities?
400
This right was taken away from blacks and was one of the most needed rights by them.
What is the right to free speech?
500
This person's slogan was, "By any means necessary"
Who is Malcolm X?
500
These were peaceful by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and not peaceful by Malcolm X or The Black Panters.
What are protests?
500
1785
Blacks are forced to keep papers to prove they are “free.” If they do not have proper papers, they are likely to be captured and sold as slaves.
What is Antebellum?
500
These types of people make up the majority of the board of the NAACP.
Who are doctors and lawyers?
500
This organization consisted of only white people. They were known for burning crosses in black people's front yards.