KKK & Civil Rights
Montgomery Bus Boycott
NAACP
The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Mississippi & the Civil Rights Movement
100
What does KKK stand for?
What is Ku Klux Klan.
100
What sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is the arrest of Rosa Parks.
100
What does NAACP stand for?
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
100
Where did tensions arise from to spark the bombing?
What is campaign to register African Americans to vote.
100
What did the leaders of the Civil Right Movement chose as a tactic?
What is nonviolence.
200
What are the KKK notorious for?
What is terrorism, bombings, arson, lynching, rape, and burning crosses to try and scare African Americans away from their homes.
200
What organization called for the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is the Women's Political Council.
200
What date was the NAACP founded?
What is February 12, 1909.
200
Who was responsible for the bombing?
What is Ku Klux Klan members who were from the Splinter group 'Chaba Boys'. There were four by the names of: Robert Chambliss, Herman Cash, Thomas Blanton, and Bobby Cherry.
200
What did many observers at the time describe the state of Mississippi as?
What is the most racist and violent?
300
What are the KKK identified as?
What is United States White protestant, which is also anti Catholic.
300
What happened on January 30, 1956 because of the boycott?
What is Martin Luther King, Jr., and E.D. Nixon homes were bombed.
300
What amendments did the NAACP first focus on to secure all people rights?
What is 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
300
Where did the bombing take place?
What is Birmingham, Alabama.
300
What lawsuit was instrumental in the Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decision that declared segregation unconstitutiona?
What is Medgar Evers lawsuit when his application to the then segregated University of Mississippi School of Law was rejected.
400
What was the name of the 14 year old African American boy from Money, Mississippi who was killed by members of the KKK?
What is Emmett Till.
400
What was the name of the federal district court case that ruled bus segregation unconstitutional?
What is Browler v. Gayle.
400
What is the name of the official journal of the NAACP?
What is 'The Crisis'.
400
What was the name of the four Sunday school students killed during the 16th Baptist Street Church bombing?
What is Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley.
400
What is the name of a prominent Mississippi civil rights leader and a secretary of the NAACP who was murdered in his driveway by a Ku Klux Klan member in 1963?
What is Medgar Evers?
500
What is the name of the KKK regalia?
What is "glory suit", which consist of: a floor-length, solid-white robe and a white, sharply pointed hat that includes a full-faced cloth mask with eyeholes.
500
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
What is 381 inconvenient day. It did succeed and was one of the events that sparked the entire Civil Rights Movement.
500
What was name of the young African American girl who was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas, because of her race. With the help of the NAACP, her parents then sued the Topeka school board.
What is Linda Brown
500
The bombing continued to increase world wide sympathy for the civil rights cause. Only July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed what act to ensure equal rights of African Americans before the law?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
500
What spurred the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting rights Act of 1965?
What is the Mississippi Civil Rights workers murders. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were lynched by Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.