Prominent Figures
Who delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
MLK Jr.
What establishments were the "Sit-in" protests occur at?
Diners/Restaurants
The "separate but equal" doctrine was legally instituted by which 1896 Act?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the name of the 14 year old who was murdered in Chicago for looking at a white woman?
Emmett Till
Who broke the color barrier in baseball?
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
What was the "massive resistance"?
The resistance of desegregation by white people
What law was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
Civil Rights act of 1964
Which popular 2018 song has a reference to the infamous Jim Crow poster?
This is America by Childish Gambino
What hotel was Robert Kennedy assassinated at?
The Ambassador Hotel
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities?
Malcom X
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to do what?
escape segregation & find better jobs
What was proclaimed in the Executive Order 9981, by Harry S. Truman in 1948?
The desegregation of the military.
Why were literacy tests, Poll Taxes & the Grandfather Clause put into place?
To Impede African Americans from voting
Who assassinated MLK Jr?
James Earl Ray
What civil rights leader believed blacks should work hard and earn their equality from whites, did not believe in pushing for the ending of segregation or equal rights now and instead believe blacks should focus on working hard, saving money & getting a practical education so they would be superior laborers?
Booker T. Washington
The 1920's period in which African Americans made important contributions in music, literature, & art was called what?
The Harlem Renaissance
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
The segregation of American public schools is illegal
What did the commerce clause of the Civil Rights Act outlaw?
Discrimination in public accommodations (privately owned restaurants, hotels, and stores, and in private schools and workplaces)
Where did the name Jim Crow come from?
It comes from the song/dance caricature "Jump Jim Crow" (performed in blackface).
According to Lynyrd Skynyrd, down in Birmingham they love which segregationist governor?
George Wallace
Name the two prominent civil rights leaders who were assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
What state consititution contained this sentence?
"All carriers must provide equal but separate seats for white and colored. No person of one race is allowed to be in the section set aside for the other race"
Louisiana
Of the 5000 lynchings in America between 1880 and 1950, what percent occurred in the southern states?
75%
Which state, in 1890, was the first to write in Jim Crow Laws into its constitution?
Mississippi