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Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Prominent speaker and non-violent activist.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Interracial organization for the abolishment of segregation and discrimination. It ensures African Americans their constitutional rights.
Brown V. Board of education decided that...
What is segregation in schools is unconstitutional?
The 1963 march for jobs and freedom
What is the March on Washington
The emancipation proclamation and the Gettysburg address inspired
What is MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech?"
Who is Malcolm X
A youth-led organization that utilized sit-ins and freedom riding to challenge segregation
What is the Student-Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
The amendment that upheld Brown v. Board of Education
What is the 14th amendment?
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court
What is the Freedom Riders?
Laws that allowed segregation
Known for saying: segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever
Who is governor George Wallace?
An organization led by Black ministers to coordinate nonviolent protests
What is the South Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
The supreme court case that established "Separate but Equal"
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
The attack on protesters in Selma, Alabama
What is Bloody Sunday?
What is racial equality and ending segregation?
A Little Rock Nine student that walked into her first day of desegregated high school alone.
Who is Elizabeth Ekford?
A group inspired by the teachings of Malcolm X focusing on Black power and defence against police brutality. Known for their 10 point program.
What is the Black Panthers?
The legislation that ended Jim Crow laws
What is the Civil Rights act of 1964?
Students that challenged racial segregation in schools
What is the Little Rock Nine?
Under Jim Crow laws, which is not true?
Separate water fountains
Separate schools
Separate voting
Separate movie theaters
What is separate voting?
The president of the USA that supported the civil rights movement
Who is John F. Kennedy?
A group of violent protesters promoting Black pride
What is the Nation of Islam?
The amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
The first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960
Who is Ruby Bridges?
The metaphor used by MLK Jr. when used to describe unfulfilled promises to African Americans
What is a bad check?