KKK
Discrimination
Segregation
People
People #2
100
What does KKK stand for?
Ku Klux Klan.
100
In what year did President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act which prohibited dicrimination against race, color, religion or national origin?
1964.
100
In what case was segregation ruled to be unconstitutional in public schools?
Brown vs. Board of Education.
100
Who was the Supreme Courts first black justice?
Thurgood Marshall.
100
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991 which reestablishes existing civil rights laws?
George H. W. Bush
200
When did the KKK form?
December 24, 1865.
200
What did voters have to do before they were able to vote?
They had to take a literacy test.
200
In what places were blacks and whites segregated?
Restaurants, Parks, Pools, Transportation and other public places.
200
Who's arrest for not giving up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama sparked a bus boycott?
Rosa Parks.
200
Who was convicted of manslaughter of two white and one black civil rights workers?
Edgar Ray Killen.
300
Was the KKK formed by the Confederates or the Yankees?
The Confederates.
300
Why couldn't most freed slaves vote?
Because most African-Americans couldn't pass the literacy test. They failed the test because most freed slaves could not read or write.
300
In what year were busses finally desegregated?
1956.
300
What president signed the Voting Right Act?
President Johnson.
300
What did Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus do which caused President Eisenhower to send in the Nathional Guard to intervene?
He blocked nine black students from entering Central High School which was formerly an all white school.
400
Why did KKK members wear those infamous white masks?
To conceal their identities to keep a good reputation.
400
What did they do to the literacy tests to make sure that not as many blacks were able to vote?
They made the test purposely harder for blacks than they did whites.
400
What incident caused many nonviolent protests in 1960?
Four black college students staged a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter which is segregated.
400
Which famous speaker for civil rights delievered his speech "I Have a Dream" to a crowd of 200,000 people at Lincoln's Memorial?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
400
Who founded the KKK?
Nathan Forest Bedford.
500
Why was the KKK created?
They wanted to achieve their goal of racial segregation and white supremacy.
500
What were white bosses still allowed to do to their freed black employees?
They were still able to whip them just like when they were slaves.
500
In what year did President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act which prohibited dicrimination against race, color, religion or national origin?
1964.
500
Who shot and killed Martin Luther King, Jr. on his hotel room balcony in 1968?
James Earl Ray.
500
In what year did Commissioner Eugene Connor use fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstraters in a civil rights protest?
1961.
M
e
n
u