This event lasted more than a year and resulted in the desegregation of Public Transit:
Montgomery Bus Boycott
100
Which side of the Berlin Wall was communist
East
100
MLK's inspiration for the concept of 'Civil Disobedience'??????
Henry David Thoreau
100
This guarantees equakl protection under the law in our Constitution
14th amendment
200
Name 2 of the 3 main parts in JFK's agency?
Medicare, urban renewal, funding for education
200
The Greensboro sit-ins was an attempt to desegregate what??????
lunch counters
200
What is the iron curtain?
A metaphor (imaginary line) for the separation of communist and Non-communist Europe
200
The first African-American mayor of a major southern city
Maynard Jackson
200
The Freedom March was a march of 50 miles between what 2 towns
Selma to Montgomery
300
What was significant about the 1960 presidential debate?
It was the 1st debate on T.V. People who watched T.V thought JFK won and people who listened to the radio thought Nixon won.
300
The nickname for the courageous students who desegregated an Arkansas high school..............
Little Rock 9
300
What date did the Berlin Wall fall?
November 9, 1989
300
This retail store employee inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
300
The location of a horrifying church bombing (meeting place for civil rights leaders so the terrorist wanted to get them but instead killed the children)
Birmingham, Alabama
400
Name 2 of the 3 main parts in JFK's civil rights bill:
to end voter and job segregation and public places segregation (basically ended segregation completely!)
400
14 year old whose open casket funeral showed the country the horrors of southern racism...........
Emmett Till
400
What was the major source of non-communist news for East Berliners?
Radio Free Europe
400
Civil Rights leader who advocated violence in retaliation to violence
Malcom X
400
This started the legal precedent of Separate but Equal
Plessy B. Ferguson
500
In his inaugural address what does JFK ask Americans to do famously?
Ask not what the country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Basically means the world should work together to make the world a better place.
500
MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech was the highlight of which march??????
March of Jobs and Freedom
500
What was the main problem for Germany after the wall fell???????
Economy (West Germany had to support East Germany since they didn't have that much money)
500
Decorated military veteran who was assassinated at his hometown, Mississippi
Medger Evers (was a civil rights leader)
500
This ended the legal rpecednt of Separate but Equal