Who Am I?
The traffic light and gas mask are mine inventions.
Who is Garret Morgan?
The base of the Democratic Party in 1961 was located where
What is the Deep South?
Who said, "I never run my train off the track and lost a passenger"?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman in 1955?
Who is Emmet Till?
I invented the ironing board.
Who is Sarah Boone?
C.O.R.E. stands for what....
What is Congress of Racial Equality?
Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise."?
Who is Maya Angelou?
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
These young people created their own wills as college students to desegregate intrastate travel in the Deep South.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Every doctor uses my invention on a patient.
Who is Thomas A. Carrington?
The Kennedy Administration didn't focus on this..
What is civil rights for Negroes/Blacks?
Who said, "I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please. 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke."
Who is Joseph Lowery?
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Which racially motivated attack on a church caused the death of four little black girls in Alabama?
What is the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama?
When you brush your hair you should thank me.
Who is Lydia O. Newman?
What types of training did the Freedom Riders receive?
What is 'make believe pushing, shoving and verbal abuse from white racists' to discourage them from remaining non violent and confrontational?
Who said, "We do what we have to so we can do what we want to."
Who is James Farmer?
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This day of the week some 50 + years ago showed the whole country and the rest of the world how horribly negroes were treated in the South. [HINT- Peaceful march]
What is Bloody Sunday?
Cardiologists should know my name, I performed the first open-heart surgery.
Who is Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
Name some of Freedom Riders and name the bus lines they rode.
Who were John Lewis, Diane Nash, Jim Zwerg, James Peck and James Farmer? What are Trailways and Greyhound?
Who said, "Never ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble."
Who is John Lewis?
Who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a Democrat, first African American elected to the Texas Senate and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives?
Who is Barbara C. Jordan?
Two landmark pieces of federal legislation in the 1960's that changed the landscape of the Civil Rights Movement.
What are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965?