Show:
Who am I?
Court is in Session!
Let us Assemble!
Random
100
I delivered the "I have a dream" speech and promoted the use of non-violent protest.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
100
I was a lawyer who eventually became the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
This event took place in 1963 where 250,000 people joined Martin Luther King Jr. fight for equal rights.
What is the March on Washington?
100
The name given to the group of high school students who were taken to school with troops sent by the federal government.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
200
I am a seamstress who refused to give up my seat on a segregated bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
This court case made segregation legal through the ruling of "separate, but equal."
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
200
The program created to fight for desegregation of interstate buses.
What is the Freedom Rides?
200
A protest of the segregated bus system where many African Americans stayed off the buses for over a year.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
I used the phrase "any means necessary" to fight for equal rights.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
These were created in the South to create segregation and promote discrimination.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
300
An organization who used sit ins against segregated lunch counters.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
300
This group organized children to join televised protest in Birmingham against Eugene "Bull" Connor.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
400
We founded the Black Panther Party.
Who are Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?
400
This court case overturned "separate, but equal" and ordered schools to desegregate.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
400
The oldest Civil Rights organization created to fund lawyers to fight for Civil Rights in courts.
Who are the NAACP?
400
The year Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
What is 1968?
500
I was the Public Safety Commissioner in Birmingham who broke up protests with fire hoses and attack dogs.
Who is Eugene "Bull" Connor?
500
This was created to ban the use of poll taxes and literacy tests during voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
500
A program created to register black voters in the South.
What is Freedom Summer?
500
The idea, promoted by Stokely Carmichael, where African Americans should not mix socially with white Americans
What is separatism?