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100

Little Rock 9 integrated a high school in what state?

Arkansas

100

Martin Luther King founded the _____________ which was one of the largest civil rights groups

SCLC (southern Christian leadership conference)

100

Name one youth (10-18 year old) face of the civil rights movement 

Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls, Claudette Colvin, Emmett Till 

100

Put these cases in order: Hedgepath & Williams vs Trenton BOE, Brown vs Board, Plessy vs Ferguson 

Plessy, Hedgepath, Brown 

100

Which idea relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education?

Separate but Equal

200
MLK's I had a dream speech was at the

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

200

___________ kicked all whites out of the group once they become radical, but initially were known for being a strong interracial group

CORE (congress of racial equality

200

Who organized the march on Washington? Why was he not the forefront of the movement (2 things)

Bayard Rustin - openly gay, communist & pacifist

200

What was unfair about Emmet Tills trial (2 things)?

All white male jury, from hometown of the accused murders

200

How did the Clark doll experiment show racism?

Kids asked what doll is smarter, prettier - showing the flaws in the education system and some home life

300

Segregation in the North was known as

De Facto Segregation

300

What does NAACP stand for?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

300

What two civil rights advancements were monumental under the Johnson administration? 

Civil Rights Act 1964

Voting Rights Act 1965

300

What did the Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968) case have to do with?

housing/rental segregation

300

What did the civil rights act of 1964 make segregation illegal in?

Public Spaces

400

Segregation in the South was known as

De Jure Segregation

400

What two groups organized the freedom rides

CORE and SNCC

400

Who started a bus protest before Rosa Parks? Why was she not the forefront of the movement?

Claudette Colvin; not the right look (darker skin, younger, youth activist chapter of NAACP)

400

What did the Supreme Court focus on when deciding the Brown vs Board case?

Could schools really be equal if they are segregated based on race

400
Two examples of de facto segregation 

Denied housing in neighborhoods & discrimination in jobs

500

MLK's first leadership role was leading the....

Montgomery Bus Boycott

500

Malcolm X joined the ___________________ and these values inspired the __________________

Malcolm X joined the ___________________ and these values inspired the __________________

500

What was Malcolm X's birth name? Why did he change it?

Little; shed identity of former slaveholders

500

Explain the case of Loving vs. Virginia, and the outcome

  • The Lovings were Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and an African American woman from Virginia.
  • They married in Washington, D.C, when they returned to Virginia, they were arrested and sentenced to one year in jail.
  • The 9-0 SC decision outlawed laws that prohibited marriage based on race.
500

How was Earl Warren significant to the supreme court

Guided justices to a unanimous decision in the brown vs board case