Laws that enforced segregation, most notably in the south.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
Amendment to the US Constitution that ensure equal protection before the law, regardless of race
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
Protesters taking long bus journeys through the south to protest segregation
What is the Freedom Rides?
200
President LBJ was
What is the 37th?
200
Historical landmark of Obama's presidency, in terms of racism
What is the first African-American president?
200
Woman known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
Ruled unconstitutional by Brown vs Board of Ed
What is "Separate but equal?"
300
June 16, 1963- “It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.”
What is the Civil Rights Address?
300
Years LBJ served
What is 1963-1969?
300
Obama's political party
What is Democrat?
300
Chicago teenager brutally murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi
Who is Emmett Till?
300
Separation of people based on race
What is segregation?
400
James Meredith was the first African American student at this university.
What is University of Mississippi, or "Ole Miss?"
400
One of LBJ's first professional jobs; gave him first hand experience with racism
What is teaching at a segregated school?
400
Year of Obama's inauguration
What is 2009?
400
Site of a historical march over a bridge, and subject of a 2014 Oscar-nominated film
What is Selma?
400
Act requiring colleges and universities to actively diversify
What is Affirmative Action?
500
The wife and first lady of JFK
Who is Jackie Kennedy?
500
The name of LBJ's first lady
What is Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson?
500
State Obama was born in
What is Hawaii?
500
First black Supreme Court justice, and lawyer in Brown vs. Board of Ed case