Civil Rights Movement

Segregation Laws

100

Passed in 1896, this supreme court resolution created separate but equal. 

Plessy vs. Ferguson 

200

Equal protection under the law

14th amendment

300

Abolished slavery

13th amendment

400

Gave black men the right to vote

15th amendment

500

This was an idea created by southerners and helped them take away rights from black americans in the south. 

Jim Crow

Civil Rights Leaders

100

Was a critic of the NAACP, was not litigious. 

Booker T. Washington

200

Co founded the NAACP

W.E.B. Du Bois

300

Was a militant, and a member of the nation of Islam

Malcolm X

400

Refused to give up her seat. 

Rosa Parks

500

Lead the Southern Leadership Conference

Dr. King

Harlem Renaissance

100

Famous dancer from St. Louis, moved to France. 

Josephine Baker

200

Famous trumpet player initially from New Orleans

Louis Armstrong

300

Popular Jazz musician from the 1920's

Duke Ellington

400

Club where the Harlem Renaissance was born

Cotton Club

500

Famous poet from Joplin, Missouri. Wrote about the black experience. 

Langston Hughes

Peaceful Protests

100

Walking across a bridge, John Lewis was beaten by police

Selma

200

Ordering food in the south.

Sit in movement.

300

Fighting segregated busses

Montgomery Bus boycotts

400

Famous speech given by Dr. King in Washington, D.C.

I have a dream speech

500

Famous response written by Dr. King to religious leaders.

Letters from a Birmingham Jail

Great Depression/World War 2 Era

100

Was the black unemployment rate higher or lower during the great depression?

Higher

200

All black fighter group in WW2. 

Tuskegee Airmen

300

President who desegregated the army

Harry S. Truman

400

Two army divisions that were all African American in WW2

92nd, and the 93rd divisions

500

First lady who was for civil rights

Eleanor Roosevelt