Famous Black Leaders
The Resistance
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To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.
Who is Malcolm X?
100
This was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. It was called for civil and economic rights for African Americans in Washington, D.C.
What is The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom or The Great March on Washington?
100
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
100
The first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces.
What is the 332d Fighter Group?
100
On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch.
Who is The Little Rock Nine?
200
He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Gandhi. This man has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
200
This group was an African-American revolutionary leftist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982.
What is the Black Panther Party?
200
A United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
200
During wars, church services, transportation and camps were _________.
What is segregated?
200
The Supreme Court had established the ruling of "separate but equal" in education. In the south, only the "separate" was established. This had been applied to schools and colleges of further education. One of the pioneering civil rights leaders was the __________.
Who is Marshall Thrugood?
300
She was an African-American civil rights activist; the U.S. Congress gave her the nick-names, "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
This was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States; intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.
What is The Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves and were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott vs. Standford or Dred Scott Decision?
300
The first African-American United to become a States Marine Corps officer.
Who is Frederick C. Branch?
300
This nickname was given to the laws introduced into the South during the 19th and 20th centuries to enforce racial segregation.
What is "Jim Crow"?
400
Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.
Who is Marshall Thurgood?
400
This group of civil rights activists sought to "test" enforcement of the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in bus terminals.
What are The "Freedom Riders"?
400
The Supreme Court ruled that Missouri could not satisfy its obligation to provide equal protection by sending an African American resident to an out-of-state law school and that Lionel Gaines must thus be admitted to the all-white University of Missouri School of Law. This case was the beginning of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's effort to chip away at the separate-but-equal doctrine.
What is Gaines vs. Canada?
400
Commander of the Tuskegee Airmen 332d Fighter Group.
Who is Benjamin O. Davis Jr?
400
On February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a white lunch counter. They are now known as __________.
Who are The Greensboro Four?
500
This woman was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida and for being an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
_________ was the name given to the plan devised by Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to challenge the system of segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The strategy was nonviolent direct action designed to confront segregation through peaceful demonstrations, rallies, boycotts, and appeals to justice.
What is "Project C"?
500
the Court struck down segregation of African American students in law and graduate schools during these two cases.
What is Sweatt vs. Painter and McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State Regents?
500
On July 17, 1944, about 2,000 tons of ammunition exploded as it was being loaded onto ships by black Navy Solders.
What is The Port Chicago disaster?
500
He was the first black student in the history to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
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