Race and the Law
This Supreme Court case ruled “separate but equal” constitutional.
(What is Plessy v. Ferguson?)
True or False: African Americans are more likely to be stopped by police than White Americans.
(What is true?)
This Netflix series documents wrongful convictions.
(What is Making a Murderer?)
This movement fought for African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
(What is the Civil Rights Movement?)
This is the capital of the United States.
(What is Washington, D.C.?)
This case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
(What is Brown v. Board of Education?)
This term refers to unfair treatment of individuals based on race.
(What is racial discrimination?)
This podcast explored the case of Adnan Syed.
(What is Serial?)
This organization was founded in 1909 to combat racial injustice.
(What is the NAACP?)
This is the most spoken language in the world.
(What is English?)
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
(What is the Thirteenth Amendment?)
This group experiences the highest rates of incarceration per capita in the U.S.
(Who are African Americans?)
In Just Mercy, Michael B. Jordan plays this real-life attorney.
(Who is Bryan Stevenson?)
This event, sometimes referred to as a "massacre", destroyed a prosperous Black community in Oklahoma.
(What is the Tulsa Race Riot?)
This country is known as the largest democracy.
(What is India?)
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
(What is the Fifteenth Amendment?)
The war on drugs disproportionately targeted this group.
(Who are people of color?)
his movie depicts a Black man on trial in a deeply segregated town.
(What is To Kill a Mockingbird?)
This program, abolished in the 1980s, contributed to the decline of urban Black communities.
(What is redlining?)
This Civil Rights leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
(Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?)
The Civil Rights Act of this year banned segregation in public places.
(What is 1964?)
This term describes policies that appear neutral but disproportionately affect minorities.
(What is systemic racism?)
This rapper’s album 4:44 discusses racial and economic inequalities.
(Who is Jay-Z?)
This amendment repealed Prohibition but led to racial disparities in enforcement.
(What is the Twenty-First Amendment?)
This U.S. state was the first to abolish slavery.
(What is Vermont?)