Led a boycott when refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
NAACP
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
100
MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.
What is the March on Washington?
100
Demonstration in which protesters sit down in a location and refuse to leave.
What is a Sit-in?
100
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
The president who was embarrassed by the actions toward African Americans who was later shot and killed.
Who is JFK?
200
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared segregation legal, as long as the facilities were "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
The act of not buying or using certain product or services as an act of protest.
What is Boycotting?
200
Tests created to limit the voting rights of African Americans if they could not READ or WRITE.
What are literacy tests?
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
He promoted black supremacy, and considered the strategy of non-violence to be ineffective.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
Who was the president who sent troops in to Arkansas to help enforce integration of schools?
Who is Dwight Eisenhower
300
Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
300
Created to limit the voting rights of African Americans by making them pay a fee if they wished to vote.
What are poll taxes?
300
African Americans and whites together rode various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation
What are the Freedom Riders?
400
MLK used the following strategy to protest against segregation.
What is Civil Disobedience?
400
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
400
Martin Luther King Jr. encourages this amongst his followers at the start of the civil rights movement?
What is non-violence?
400
This law allowed voters to vote if in the past their grandfather was able to vote.
What is the grandfather clause?
400
He was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era
Who was Jackie Robinson?
500
MLK modeled his non-violent protests after the theory of disobedience from this Indian Nationalist Leader.
Who is Ghandhi?
500
In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block these students from entering high school.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
500
Event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, that was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
500
Prominent Civil Rights Leaders, who had different strategies to succeed (one violent and one non-violent), that were both assassinated.