The seamstress and NAACP officer who refused to move seats on a Montgomery bus to make room for a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
The U.S. Supreme Court case ruling that held that, "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
The tactic used by civil rights activists to integrate buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus boycott?
100
Goal of the civil rights movement in the 1940's and early 1950's (this is a sequence of events type question).
What is to seek equal access to public accommodations, such as hotels, movie theatres, buses, stores, bathrooms and restaurants?
100
The Civil Rights leader who is still a member of our U.S. Congress today.
Who is U.S. Representative John Lewis.
200
The most well known leader of the civil rights movement who preached non-violence.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
The laws in the South that led African Americans to continue to experience political oppression even after passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
The two tactics used by Southern states to keep African Americans from voting?
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
200
The goal of expert witnesses who showed that segregated education led to loss of self esteem for minority students.
What is to seek desegregation of schools>
200
The Student Civil Rights organization that Diane Nash was a leader of.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
300
Leader of the civil rights movement who urged violent armed resistance to white oppression.
Who is Malcolm X or Stokely Carmichael?
300
The Civil rights legislation that finally declared literacy tests illegal and created federal enforcement of African American voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
300
The group of civil rights activists that brought about Federal enforcement of integration of interstate transportation.
What are the Freedom Riders?
300
One of the EFFECTS of television coverage of the violence by Southern white police officers, public officials and white supremacists against the Freedom Riders.
What is this helped the public see the cruelty of the white separatists and pushed the President to enforce federal integration of interstate transportation laws and pass the "Civil Rights Act of 1964"?
300
The term for segregation that exists by reason of custom and practice in the North and South of U.S.
What is De Facto Segregation?
400
The NAACP lawyer who argued Brown v. Bd. of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court and later became a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
The 1896 U.S Supreme Ct. case that ruled that segregation was constitutional as long as facilities for blacks and whites were, "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
The successful tactic used by Thurgood Marshall and others to integrate schools in the South.
What are court challenges to segregation?
400
Goals of Affirmative Action programs.
What is to force colleges and companies that do business with the Federal Government to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination? OR Equal Employment and College Admission for Minorities.
400
the term for segregation by law.
What is De Jure Segregation?
500
The U.S. President who signed some of the most important Civil Rights legislation of the 1960's into law.
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
The law that called for enforcement of Federal laws outlawing unequal treatment of Blacks and segregation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
The non-violent tactic used by civil rights activists to bring about integration of lunch counters in the South.
What are sit-ins and non-violent resistance?
500
The militant political party who sought greater civil rights for African Americans.
What is the Black Panther party?
500
Some of the causes of race riots in the U.S. in the mid- 1960's.
What are high unemployment in minority neighborhoods; leaders who urged armed resistance to white oppression; police brutality; run down neighborhoods and de facto segregation?