Speeches/Videos
Presidents
Events
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TV/Film
Stuff I forgot
100
We watched his "I've been to the mountaintop," speech?
MLK
100
He botched the Bay of Pigs and was later assassinated.
JFK
100
In which decade did why achieve the following
60s
100
She wrote A Raisin in the Sun?
Lorraine Hansberry
100
On what show might you find this?
Batman
100
The poem Harlem influenced this plays title. It was written by which poet?
Langston Hughes
200
We watched a CBC interview with him about his beliefs and his exit from the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
200
He won the crowded 1968 election after previously losing the 1960 election, thanks to a sweaty performance in the first televised debate.
Nixon
200
Name one of the wars the U.S. was involved in during the 50s and 60s?
Vietnam War
Korea War
Cold War
200
He wrote In Cold Blood about the murders of a family in Kansas?
Truman Capote
200
This show boldly went where no man had gone before in 1966 when it debuted and has set off a series of spinoffs and movies?
Star Trek
200
Sexton and Plath were influenced by this Charlotte Perkins Gilman work?
The Yellow Wallpaper
300
James Baldwin and William F. Buckley held a debate over this topic in Oxford, England?
Race in America
300
He passed the 1965 Civil Rights Act during his Presidency, but also got the United States more heavily involved in the Vietnam War, leading him to not seek re-election.
Johnson
300
He shook his hips and they just had cute hair, what are the two musicians pictured below that caused fans to swoon and go crazy when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show?
Elvis and The Beatles
300
He wrote The Pedestrian and Fahrenheit 451?
Ray Bradbury
300
This genre of movies was widely popular in the 50s and 60s? Bonus if you can name the movie pictured
Westerns
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
300
MLK was greatly influenced by what writer's Civil Disobedience, which also inspired Gandhi?
Thoreau
400
We watched a speech by JFK about the U.S. decision to do this?
Go to the moon
400
He was the first Republican President since 1932.
Eisenhower
400
Thurgood Marshall had the distinction of being the first African-American appointed to this position?
Supreme Court Justice
400
He wrote the letter to his nephew that we read in class?
James Baldwin
400
The chocolate factory scene was featured on this 1950s hit TV show?
I Love Lucy
400
Hansberry had a real-life experience influence her play, what was the incident?
Her father tried to buy a house in an all-white neighborhood, and he was denied, so he took it to the Supreme Court and won.
500
Dwight D. Eisenhower gave a speech regarding using U.S. forces to help do this in Arkansas?
Integrate schools
500
The 1968 election may have looked differently if George Wallace did not run, likely taking votes from Hubert Humphrey, but also if this candidate had not been assassinated while campaigning, 5 years after the death of his brother.
Robert Kennedy
500
February 3, 1959, is also known as this, when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash?
The day the music died
500
Before he died at age 47 he wrote On the Road?
Jack Kerouac
500
What fear caused the creation of movies like the one below?
Nuclear War
500
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton both wrote poems about this?
The struggles of women in the 1950s.