Voting
This civil rights leader had close ties to MLK Jr., helping lead the march on Washington, later became a congressman deeply involved in advocating for voters rights. (Hint: Inspiration of the HUCGT)
Who is John Lewis?
The first black american to be elected to be the president of the United States of America
Who is Barack Obama?
This land mark bill passed under LBJ, codified into law the enforcement of the 15th amendment and banned the denial of voting based on the race of any citizen.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The exemption of this group of people in the 13th amendment allowed for the effective continuation of slavery in America
What are convicts?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
These famous tests were used at polling locations to ensure that black american citizens could not vote in elections.
What is a literacy test?
The first black woman to run for the President of the United States of America.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This group of white and black activists took interstate bus trips into Southern states to protest the enforcement of segregation on public transportation.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Trump took an ad out in the New York Times condemning this group of later exonerated black boys.
Who are the Central Park 5?
The ruling in this Supreme Court case, prevented a formerly enslaved person from suing for his freedom and established the precedent that black people could not be citizens of the US
What is Dredd Scott V. Sandford? Who is Dredd Scott?
This day of the march on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge led to the beating and tear gassing of protestors.
What is Bloody Sunday?
The first black american elected to the US Senate, Hiram Revels, represented this state.
What is Mississippi?
This working class coalition focused on housing, health and economic discrimination, was the first alliance between the Black Panther party, Young Patriots, and Young Lords
What is the Rainbow Coalition?
This famous Black Panther is on the FBI most wanted list for fleeing to Cuba after being charged for the murder of a police officer.
Who is Assata Shakur?
The ruling in this historic Supreme Court case reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling on the separate but equal precedent.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This act recently passed in the House, makes documentation showing proof of citizenship a requirement to register to vote in federal elections
What is the SAVE act?
In a historic inauguration speech this Alabama Governor proclaimed "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
Who is George Wallace?
This act passed in the US House but struck down in the Senate would prohibit discrimination based on hairstyle and texture in employment and education.
What is the CROWN act?
This charge, disproportionately given to black people, allows prosecutors to charge defendants with murder as long as a death takes place in the process of a felony.
What is felony murder?
This Supreme Court Justice voted to rule Affirmative Action unconstitutional in violation of the 14th amendment and has been accused of violating the courts ethic code for receiving undisclosed paid vacations from a partisan megadonor.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
This year following the end of the Civil War was the first year free black citizens could vote in elections after the ratification of the 15th amendment
What is 1870?
This former sharecropper and organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, was forced off the air at the DNC in 1964 after testifying her eviction and abuse in jail after trying to vote.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
Bringing back this employment program, ended under the Roosevelt Admin, was a key demand in the March on Washington.
What is the public/federal works program or WPA?
This nickname for illegally imported goods was named after a guerrilla group armed by the US Government to overthrow the left wing Government in Nicaragua in exchange for cocaine.
What is contraband?
This conservative activist lawyer founded the Students for Fair Admissions org that would later file a lawsuit against Harvard and other universities leading to the ruling of Affirmative Action as unconstitutional.
Who is Edward Blum?