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Era following the Civil War from 1865 to 1877
What is Reconstruction
100
Peaceful means to affect change
What is nonviolent resistance
100
Rode buses into segregated terminals throughout the South in the Spring of 1961
Who are the Freedom Riders
100
THe largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history held in August of 1963 for the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the March on Washington
100
Founder and leader of the Black Muslims in the early 1930's
Who is Elijah Muhammad
200
A set of laws and social customs set for African Americans during the Reconstruction era
What is Jim Crow
200
The NAACP's leading lawyer who urged that African American children were not getting the same quality of education as whites.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
200
Governor of Alabama who stood in a doorway to prevent the desegregation of the University of Alabama in 1963
Who is George Wallace
200
Year that the Civil Rights Act was passed
What is 1964
200
Developed the idea of Black Power in 1966
Who is Stokely Carmichael
300
Supreme Court Case that reversed the ruling of "Separate But Equal"
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
300
Indian leader who influenced many of Martin Luther King's techniques
Who is Gandhi
300
President Kennedy's stance on the Civil Rights Movement
What is vigorous support
300
President who passed and signed the Civil Rights Act
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
300
Urged African Americans to arm themselves and confront white society in order to force whites to grant them equal rights
Who are the Black Panthers
400
Was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat in the front of a bus
Who is Rosa Parks
400
Where and when 9 African American students were not permitted to enter a school
What is Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)
400
Was not allowed to enter the University of Mississippi in September 196
Who is James Meredith
400
Year that the Voting Rights Act was passed
What is 1965
400
War that was surrounded by controversy and protest during the 1960's and 1970's
What is the Vietnam War
500
Leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
500
Between 1957 and 1960 only ____% of African American adults votes in states of the deep South.
What is 25%
500
Birmingham, Alabama police commissioner
Who is Eugene "Bull" Connor
500
Was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
Who is John F. Kennedy
500
Where Martin Luther King Jr. was killed
What is Memphis, Tennessee