Events
This caused 50,000 African Americans to walk to wherever they needed to go (Also caused the rise in Carpooling).
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This African American person had refused to get out of her seat for a white man in the front of the bus.
Who was Rosa Parks?
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in Southern States.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
This group was founded in 1942 and played a leading role in African American civil rights. Also helped train non-violence into African American students in the south and made many protests that began to flood through the south.
What is CORE?
Leader and Symbol for the civil rights movement. Delivered famous I Have a Dream Speech
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This is a type of protest in which if refused service the person protesting would not be allowed to leave.
What are Sit ins?
This is the longest running civil rights organization that had worked for equal rights in the legal system.
What is the NAACP?
This was called off when bus segregation was declared to be no longer allowed.
What were the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
States that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
What was the philosophy taught to the African American protests and civil rights activists.
What is non-violence?
This protest’s first attempt was stopped in the streets of Alabama.
What was Freedom Rides?
Students chosen for their high intellect to join an all white school in Arkansas.
Who was the Little Rock Nine.
Unanimous Supreme Court court that declared that segregation of schools was not constitutional at all.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
State that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
( BONUS QUESTION ) (TOPIC SPONGEBOB)
This is how you blow a bubble.
What is TECHNIQUE?!
This march had over 200,000 white and black civil rights activists participate in a peaceful walk. This is the march where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have a Dream Speech.
What was the March on Washington?
This group was comprised of mostly students who were trained to be anti-violence protesters.
What was the SNCC?
Segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal” the famous "separate but equal" segregation policy.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Ensured African Americans safe housing and equal rights at the workplace.
What was the National Urban League?
( BONUS QUESTION ) (TOPIC SPONGEBOB)
This was hidden in Patrick's secret box.
What was a picture of Spongebob in an embarrassing moment at a Christmas party.
This event had 600 people protesting the killing of a black civil rights activist. The people were stopped by Alabama police and when they didn’t stop moving the police began to beat and teargas the peaceful protestors, this was all shown live on television and was one of the first times an event so brutal was shown to the american people.
What was Bloody Sunday or what was the Selma to Montgomery March?
Who was the Governor of Arkansa who had put so much effort into keeping African Americans out of white school systems (most particularly Little Rock Central High School).
Who was Orval Faubus?
This was one of the ways that people were able to stop African American voters from voting (policy).
What was the Grandfather Clause? (What is a literacy test is also an acceptable question)
Laws in the Southern States after the Civil War that restricted African Americans freedoms. And compelled them to work in high labor low paying jobs.
What are the Black Codes?
this group struggled to gain equality with Hispanics and had Delgado V. Bastrop won over to make segregation against Hispanic children illegal.
What was the LULAC (The League of United Latin American Citizens)?