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Separate but Equal
The "Black Power" Movement
Birmingham
Brown vs. Board of Education
Civil Disobedience
100
He sat on a whites only train car and was arrested in 1896.
Who is Homer Plessy?
100
He emerged as a leader during the mid-60's with a philosophy that was more violent than Dr. King.
Who is Malcolm X?
100
This famous church was the headquarters for the march; it also was where 4 little girls were killed by the KKK.
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church?
100
She had to cross train tracks to get to the "blacks only" school in Topeka, Kansas.
Who is Linda Brown?
100
She stood up by sitting down.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
When this guy moved to Illinois in 1857, he thought he was a free citizen...there was no slavery there.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
The Nation of Islam.
What was X's religion?
200
He was Birmingham's chief police commissioner.
Who is Eugene "Bull" Connor?
200
This organization funded the Browns and others to help it get to the Supreme Court.
What is the NAACP?
200
Franklin Eugene McCain and his three friends sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter in this city and state...and started a movement.
What is Greensboro, NC
300
These kinds of laws made separate but equal the law of the American South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
300
They developed a 10-Point Plan which included free health care for all blacks and the release of all black prisoners.
Who is the Black Panther Party?
300
The was Birmingham's nickname.
What is "Bombingham"
300
He said there was no constitutional requirement to integrate schools.
Who is John W. Davis?
300
This is the nickname given to the first attempt where 600 marchers were overrun by police during a march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery.
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
400
He wanted to use the Constitution and the courts to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson, and trained black lawyers to do just that.
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
400
This neighborhood in Los Angeles suffered a massive race riot that left 34 people dead and cost $35 million dollars in damages.
What is Watts?
400
The age of the youngest child arrested during the Children's March.
What is 4 years old?
400
He stated, "Separate educational facilitates were inherently unequal".
Who Earl Warren?
400
This was the biggest demonstration in American history with over 250,000 participants.
What is The March on Washington?
500
It guarantees all citizens equal protection and rights under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 strengthened this Reconstruction Amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
This place was used to hold children when the jails became full during the children's march.
What is the fairgrounds?
500
The lawyer for the Brown case who would eventually become the first black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
He organized the march; he originally wanted it in 1941.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?