This case created the precedent of "Separate but Equal", making Jim Crow legal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896.
100
The Thirteenth Amendment freed the slaves and the Fourteenth gave them this status.
What is citizenship.
100
The very prosperous African-American portion of this city was destroyed by whites in 1921.
What is Tulsa.
100
This president was assassinated in 1963.
Who is J. F. Kennedy.
100
The right to own a gund is found in this amendment
What is the second.
200
The Court's decision in this case ended "Separate but Equal", and led to the demise of Jim Crow.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954.
200
Although the Fifteenth Amendment gave black men the right to vote, it was only after this act passed (almost a hundred years later) that the majority of African-Americans were actually allowed to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
200
This NAACP leader was gunned down by a Klansman in Jackson, MS, 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers.
200
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is L. B. Johnson.
200
The right to free speech is found in this amendment.
What is the First.
300
After the Supreme Court ruled against Jim Crow laws in 1954, it took this long before all public schools desegregated.
a. 5 years
b. 10 years
c. more than 15 years
What is "more than 15 years".
300
No one may be denied life, liberty or property without this.
(found in the 14th Amendment)
What is "due Process".
300
After a trooper murdered this man, Civil Rights supporters organized a march in Selma that became known as Bloody Sunday.
Who is Jimmie Lee Jackson.
daily double
300
This president sent troops to protect the first black students at Little Rock Central High School.
Who is Eisenhower (Ike).
300
The requirement the police obtain a search warrant before entering someone's home without permission is found in this amendment.
What is the Fourth.
400
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court by this president.
Who is John F. Kennedy.
400
This violent, racist organization works to promote segregation and deny the civil rights of African-Americans, Jews and Hispanics.
What is the Ku Klux Klan.
400
This term refers to executing someone without due process. 5000 people died this way between 1880 and 1968.
What is Lynching.
400
This younger brother of a president supported civil rights and was running for president himself when an assassin killed him.
Who is Robert F. Kennedy.
400
The right to remain silent as described in the Miranda warning is found in this amendment.
What is Fifth.
500
This Supreme Court Justice stood alone when he dissented from the Plessy decision and stated that a free country could not have two classes of citizens.
Who is John Marshall Harlan.
500
During this period, immediately following the end of slavery, African-American had many freedoms for the first time.
What is Reconstruction.
500
Poll taxes and reading tests were once used to keep blacks and poor whites from doing this.
What is voting.
500
This man became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, after being appointed by President Kennedy.
Who is Thurgood Marshall.
500
The right to reasonable bail is found in this amendment.