March
What were activists who rode buses between states to challenge bus segregation called?
Freedom Riders
What is the first name of the protagonist in The Drummer Boy of Shiloh?
Joby
In what year did the Civil War begin?
1861
In what year did Reconstruction begin?
1865
What is the name of the neighborhood in which Starr lives?
Garden Heights
What was the acronym for the organization for college student activists during the Civil Rights Movement?
SNCC
In Thank You, Ma'am, what does the main character hope to buy with the money he tries to steal?
Blue suede shoes
How many states succeeded from the Union and formed the Confederate states?
Eleven
Which amendment ended slavery?
The 13th amendment
What is the name of Starr's private school?
Williamson Prep
In which church were the four little girls killed by members of the KKK?
The 16th Street Baptist Church
How much is Martha asked to pay for the jacket in The Scholarship Jacket?
$15
What was the name of Abraham Lincoln's speech at a famous battleground site?
The Gettysburg Address
What did the 14th Amendment do?
It made formerly enslaved people citizens.
Starr has a boyfriend and two close friends at her school. What are their names?
Chris, Maya and Hailey
Who was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington?
John Lewis
Who gives the red sweater to Rachel in Eleven?
Mrs. Price
What was the name of the order declared by President Lincoln that declared enslaved people in the Confederate states to be freed?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Right after the Civil War, many Southern states passed unfair laws designed to control Black people and force them back into a system like slavery. What were those unfair law called?
Black Codes
Who is arrested for drug dealing and for ordering the attack on Maverick's store?
King
What is the name of the day when peaceful marchers were brutally attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Bloody Sunday
What is the name of the protagonist in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
Peyton Farquhar
What were the three reasons for the Civil War?
States' rights, the economy, slavery
What was the name of the first elected black senator?
Hiram Revels
What is the name of the organization that Ms. Ofrah represents?
Just Us for Justice