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Church Bombings
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lunch Counter Sit-ins
Brown vs. BOE
Civil Rights Legislation
100
Secret Civil Rights Meetings
What was the 16 Street Church used for?
100
His birthdate
When is January 15, 1929?
100
Greensboro, NC
Where numerous nonviolent sit-ins occurred?
100
Segregated schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of this Amendment.
What is the 14th?
100
The court case that ruled segregation on vehicles that travel between states unconstitutional because it is in violation of the Interstate Commerce Act.
What is the Boynton vs. Virginia court case?
200
The city in which the 16th Street Church bombing occurred.
Where is Birmingham, AL?
200
His mom's occupation.
What is a schoolteacher?
200
February 1, 1960
When four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter inside a Woolworth store and were refused service?
200
Filed against this city's Board of Education by representative Oliver Brown.
Where is Topeka, Kansas?
200
They created the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which created the Civil Rights Commission and authorized the Justice Department to examine cases of African Americans being deprived of their voting rights in the south.
Who is the United States Congress.
300
Fourteen
What is the number of people injured in the 16th Street Church bombing.
300
Atlanta, GA
Where was he born?
300
Joseph McNeil
Who is one of the four college freshman who sat at the Woolworth lunch counter?
300
Supreme Court Justice who wrote "States have no valid reason to impose segregation and racial separation caused psychological change in black children."
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
The Supreme Court rules the University of Mississippi has to admit this African American.
Who is James Meredith?
400
The name of the group responsible for the 16 Street Church bombing
What is the Klu Klux Klan (KKK)?
400
"I have a dream"
What is the name of the speech he gave in Washington, D.C. to 250,000 people about equality and peace among all people.
400
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who joined a student sit-in at Rich’s, a whites-only restaurant within an Atlanta department store?
400
The date of the court's decision that racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.
When was May 17, 1954.
400
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned discrimination in certain places.
Where are public facilities and employment?
500
These events followed the church bombings.
What are racial protests?
500
Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN
Where he was assassinated for his leadership in equality between blacks and whites.
500
Downtown Greensboro Woolworth desegregates its lunch counter after six months of sit-ins.
When is July 25, 1959?
500
The Supreme Court made a ruling which stated localities were to act on the desegregation of schools decision promptly and to move toward full compliance "with all deliberate speed."
What is known as Brown vs. BOE II?
500
President Johnson signs this law which made illegal all discriminatory voting requirements, such as requiring literacy tests before registering to vote, which was previously used by white Southerners to prevent black Southerners from voting.
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965?