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This person was convicted for disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinace because she would not give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Tennessee.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
The Montgomery bus boycott took place for what year to what year?
What is The years 1955-1966
100
This group of nine African Americans enrolled in Little Rock Central High School.
Who is the Little Rock Nine?
100
What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
100
"De Lawd" was a nick name given to MLK during which movement?
What is the Albany Movement?
200
This human rights activist utilized violence as a tactic when necessary.
Who is Malcolm X?
200
These were student protests at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
What is a Sit-In?
200
These people escorted the Little Rock Nine into school?
What is the National Guard?
200
What is the SNCC?
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
200
During which Campaign did MLK write his famous "letter from Birmingham jail"?
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
300
Which human rights activist wrote the speach "I have a Dream"?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
300
These were journeys by Civil Rights activists on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, (1960)
What is A Freedom ride?
300
This person intervened in order to allow the Little Lock Nine to attend school?
Who is president Eisenhower?
300
The acronym CORE stands for what?
What is the Congress of Racial Equality?
300
On July 2, 1964, this President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is President Johnson?
400
Which courageous civil rights lawyer presented the case Brown V. Education?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
Philip Randolph had planned a march on Washington, D.C. in 1941 to support demands for elimination of employment discrimination in defense industries. What led him to call it off?
What is Executive Order 8802?
400
What substance was thrown into Mebla Pattillo's eyes?
What is Acid?
400
The SCLC is an acronym for what?
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Committee?
400
On September 15, a conspiracy of ___________________ bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Fill in the blank.
What is Ku Klux Klan members?
500
Which human rights activist was formally known as "Detroit Red"?
Who is Malcolm X?
500
After numerous black players were refused service by a number of New Orleans hotels and businesses, and white cabdrivers refused to carry black passengers, black and white players alike lobbied for what boycott?
What is the boycott of New Orleans?
500
This superintendent submitted a gradual plan of integration on May 24, 1955.
Who is Virgil Blossom?
500
The SCLC was closely associated with it's president who was the president of this organization?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
In 1966 Sheriff Jim Clark of Alabama was infamous for using which weapon?
What is the cattle prod?