1896 Supreme Court decision that held that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities provided for blacks were equal to those provided for whites
Plessy v. Ferguson
100
City where Plessy challenged segregation
New Orleans
100
Murder of a person by a mob without a lawful trial
Lynching
100
I sued the school board of Topeka so that my daughter could attend an all white school near our home.
Oliver Brown
200
Landmark case that ended segregation in public schools by declaring that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional
Brown vs. Board of Education
200
I wanted to be the first African American to attend this University in 1962
University of Mississippi
200
Racial segregation created by law
De jure segregation
200
Name three groups of people discriminated against other than African Americans
Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans
300
Name of Supreme Court Justice that dissented in landmark case in 1896
Justice Harlan
300
I did everything in my power to keep my state's schools segregated. I am governor of which state?
Arkansas
300
NAACP stand for this
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
300
First African American to graduate from Harvard with a PhD
W.E.B. Dubois
400
19th century Supreme Court Justice that believed that separate facilities were equal facilities
Justice Brown
400
Location of institute founded by Booker T. Washington to teach African Americans practical skills for self-sufficiency
Alabama
400
Separation caused by social conditions such as poverty
De facto segregation
400
“I will stand in the schoolhouse door to prevent integration”
Governor George Wallace
500
Supreme Court ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson that established this kind of segregation
De jure segregation
500
DuBois was born in this city and state
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
500
Name of the institute founded by Booker T. Washington founded to teach African Americans practical skills for self-sufficiency
Tuskegee Institute
500
I am an African American student who enrolled at a Southern University in 1962 and federal marshals had to escort me to class