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100

Who in 1963, gave the famous “ I have dream” speech?

What is Martin Luther King?

100

The Sit-ins protested segregation in what kind of places?

What are diners/restaurants?

100

What does the acronym SCLC stand for?

a) Southern Christian Leadership Conference

b) South Carolina Leadership Conference

c) Southern Coalition Leadership Correction

a) What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference? 

100

What does segregation mean?

What is each race is kept separate from each other?

200

What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities. He did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and should blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them.

a) Mahatma Ghandi   b) Malcom X   c) WEB DuBois

b) What is Malcolm X?

200

What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?

What is the Civil Rights act of 1964?

200

What does the acronym SNCC stand for?

a) Standard Nominating Counsel Committee

b) South & North Coordinating Counsel

c) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

c) What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?

200

What does desegregation mean?

What is the races are not kept separated from each other?

300

What college did the students who staged a protest at Woolworth in downtown Greensboro, NC attend?

1) What is NC A&T State University? Aggie Pride!

300

During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?

What is escape segregation & find better jobs?

300

What is another group (groups of people) that emerged as the Civil Rights movement progressed for African Americans?

What is:  women, Native Americans, white ethnic offspring of the "new immigration", Latinos. 

300

Sometimes it is necessary to disobey unjust laws and to work to have them changed. What statement most accurately reflects this idea?

a) Outright Disobedience

b) Counteracting Law

c) Civil Disobedience

What is Civil Disobedience?


400

What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.

What is Martin Luther King?

400

The Great Depression was hardest on blacks because?

What is blacks were the first to lose their jobs, and did not have financial savings to help them through the Great Depression

400

What are "countercultural" lifestyles?

a) Normal, mainstream life

b) Diverse and challenge regular lifestyles

c) Past lifestyles 

What is b) diverse and challenge regular lifestyles?

400

What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights?

What is Declaration of Independence?

500

What Civil Rights leader refused to give up her seat on a bus that led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott?

What is Rosa Parks?

500

Who led the "March on Washington" on 1963?

What is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

500

What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?

What is Lyndon Johnson?

500

What religious group did Malcolm X belong to?

What is the Nation of Islam?