Civil Rights Movement
Dr. King's assassination sped up the desegregation of?
Housing
Civil Rights Act of 1968, passed just days after his murder
Name one of the two founders of the SNCC:
1. Floyd McKissick
2. Stokely Carmichael
Name the speech we listened to:
I Have A Dream
Who is the Governor of Indiana?
Eric Holcomb
What years were the Vietnam Wars fought?
Nov. 1, 1955- April 30, 1975
Brown v. Board of Education decided: 1954
Separate but equal was unconstitutional
This person became the first African-American to become a Supreme Court Justice:
Thurgood Marshall
This person was arrested for registering to vote in 1962, and the police encourage other inmates to beat them.
Frannie Lou Hamer
Kamala Harris
The United States supported who in the Vietnam Wars?
A. Northern Vietnam
B. Southern Vietnam
B. Southern
Plessy v. Ferguson decided what:
1896
Separate but equal was Constitutional
This person was arrested and sparked a year long bus boycott in Montgomery
Rosa Parks
The first African American woman in the United States House of Representatives:
Shirley Chisholm
Name the three United States Presidential candidates for 2024 ballots:
Republican: Donald Trump
Democrat: Joe Biden
Independent: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
What is the reason the U.S. entered Vietnam?
To stop the spread of Communism, Eisenhower was afraid of a domino theory
What does the SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ordained minister who became the first president of the SCLC
Martin Luther King Jr.
This man assassinated Malcolm X, and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY.
Talmadge X Hayer
Thomas Hagan
Mujahid Abdul Halim
All acceptable answers
The Indiana state fossil is:
Hint: it became extinct about 10,500 years ago
The American mastodon
1. ambush
2. booby traps
3. land mines
Malcolm X's assassination sparked what political group?
The Black Panther (Party)
An Air Force veteran who won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi
James Meredith
Who confessed to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.?
James Earl Ray
Name the longest or second longest river in the United States
Mississippi
Missouri
Americans who opposed the war were called:
Americans for the war were called:
Doves
Hawks