People and Groups
Big Ideas/Events
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The first black student to attend the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
100
A period of "rebuilding" after the Civil War where the federal government governed the South until Southern governments did more to protect the rights of black Americans.
What is Reconstruction?
100
Founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and Civil Rights supporters, this group continues to advocate for black rights today through the court of law.
What is the N.A.A.C.P.?
100
Major global conflict that created new opportunities for black activism.
What is World War 2?
100
This law made discriminatory voting practices, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, illegal.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
200
14 year old boy brutally murdered by white man for allegedly flirting with the man's wife. News of the murder inspired many civil rights activists.
Who is Emmett Till?
200
True or False: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi resolved all problems and no civil rights issues exist today.
200
This constitutional amendment guarantees equal protection under the law to all U.S. citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
The umbrella organization that united three major civil rights organizations (SNCC, NAACP, CORE).
What is the Congress of Federated Organizations?
200
Idea of black self-determination, not relying on white institutions for help, and economic and political independence.
What is Black Power?
300
Important investigative journalist, her work shined light on the truth of the racial violence in the South during Jim Crow.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
What were three goals of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi?
What are desegregation, economic opportunities, and an end to racial violence/intimidation?
300
This constitutional amendment grants the right to vote to all citizens, regardless of race, color, or prior condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, making state-sponsored segregation illegal throughout the United States.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
300
Social movement founded in 2013 after the murder of Trayvon Martin. Goal of the movement is to stop racial violence against black communities.
What is Black Lives Matter (BLM)?
400
An intellectual who graduated from Harvard. Published The Souls of Black Folk in 1903 and co-founded the NAACP in 1909.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
400
Three ways that black Americans responded to the realities of Jim Crow.
What is survival, flight, and resistance?
400
In this Supreme Court case, the federal government ruled segregation did not violate the Constitution, and established the policy of "Separate, but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
A group created with the goal of attacking white supremacy through nonviolent direct action, primarily made up of young people.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.)?
400
Presidential nominating event where the Democratic Party did not seat their delegation. A major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the 1964 Democratic National Convention?
500
Civil Rights activist who encouraged the movement to organize more poor black communities, believing the most oppressed people should play a larger role in the movement.
Who is Ella Baker?
500
The main goal of the Freedom Summer.
What is registering black people to vote?
500
Local laws that segregated nearly every aspect of public life.
What are Jim Crow laws?
500
A multiracial political party established to represent black citizens and poor whites.
What is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)?
500
A key issue of the civil rights movement in the late 1960s.
What is economic justice?