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100
This man was a prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King Junior?
100
This is the famous speech given by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the I Have a Dream Speech?
100
President Gerald Ford made February officially Black History Month.
What is true?
100
The ____ Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination illegal and ended segregation.
What is Civil?
200
This woman led the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and famously refused to give up her seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
Black History Month is celebrated in this month of the year.
What is February?
200
Juneteenth is celebrated on July 19th, and marks the day that the last enslaved people were freed from Texas.
What is false? It is celebrated in June.
200
Martin Luther King Jr was quoted as saying, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their ______."
What is character?
300
This woman escaped slavery and helped many other people escape slavery using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
The famous event where Martin Luther King Jr gave the I Have a Dream Speech.
What is the March on Washington?
300
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 gave women the right to vote.
What is false? Women got the right to vote in 1920. The voting rights act made it illegal for states to try and prevent people from voting based on their race.
300
Barack Obama was elected the first African American ______ in 2008.
What is president?
400
This man escaped slavery and taught himself to read, going on to write in favor of ending slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
The famous bill that Abraham Lincoln signed to end the practice of slavery in the US.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Jamie Rockinson was an African American baseball player who helped desegregate the sport.
What is False? His name was Jackie Robinson!
400
Many famous civil rights marches and speeches were held in the capitol of the US, __________.
What is Washington, DC?
500
This was the first girl to attend a white-only school while schools were being desegregated in America.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
500
This event was a long fight over whether or not slavery should continue in the US, where the North and the South were divided.
What is the Civil War?
500
Martin Luther King Jr advocated for nonviolent direct action, working together to take action against things that are not fair.
What is True?
500
Brown vs Board of Education was a court case that helped end segregation of children in ______.
What is education or schools?