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Important People
Important Events
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Miscellaneous
100
She was the spark plug that initiated the Montgomery bus boycott because she refused to give up her seat to a white male.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
President Johnson signed this piece of legislation in 1964 that prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or natural origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100
What doctrine did King demonstrate in his civil rights protests, which is also the title of Henry Thoreua's 1849 essay arguing against government injustice?
What is Civil Disobedience?
100
Name the three Reconstruction amendments and what they achieved?
The 13th amendment abolished slavery. The 14th amendment gave citizens equal protection under the law. The 15th amendment gave all men the right to vote.
200
This activist founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, dedicated to promoting African-Americans and resettlement in Africa.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
200
Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College staged a sit-in at this location in Greensboro.
Where is Woolworth Lunch Counter?
200
King along with Charles K. Steele and Fred L. Shuttlesworth established this organization, which was a major force in organizing civil rights movements based on principals of nonviolence.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
200
This boy's murder is noted as one of the leading events that motivated the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
This NAACP attorney represented Brown in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and later went on to become the nation's first black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block these students from entering high school.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
300
Put this quote into your own words and state where it's from? "In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check…This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable Rights' of 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…' Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
King uses the metaphor of a bad check to show that African-Americans have not received the promises guaranteed to all American citizens in the Declaration of Independence. This excerpt comes from the "I have a Dream Speech" during the March on Washington.
300
The 24th amendment outlawed this.
What are poll taxes?
400
This president sent troops in to Arkansas to help enforce integration of schools.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
400
This landmark piece of United States legislation outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests, which were responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
After much debate, this bill passed in 1983 to honor the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. by doing what?
What is create a national holiday in remembrance of King?
400
These laws were enacted after Reconstruction in Southern United States until 1965 mandating de jury segregation in all public facilities under the doctrine "separate but equal."
What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
This president under Executive Order 9981 abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the service.
Who is Harry Truman?
500
This organized group of student volunteers travelled across the South to test new laws that prohibited segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes bus and railway stations?
Who are the Freedom Riders?
500
Put this quote in your own words and state where it's from. "Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
King believed that the fight for Civil rights concerned every man. If everyone could band together and fight for a common goal, then there was no possible way to squash the movement. This quote comes from "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
500
This person believed Civil Rights change was not happening quickly enough and that African-Americans should use anyway possible to get changes including violence.
Who is Malcolm X?