This case ended legal segregation in public schools
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
100
An act that is giving equal opportunity and consideration to a racial, religious, or ethnic group or a member of such a group
What is integration
100
Twenty-one-year-old black man, native of Mississippi, wanted better life for his family and his people
Who is James Chaney
100
Freedom Summer volunteers were split into two groups. What was one of their tasks?
What was travel from house to house and encourage residents to vote and/or teach at the freedom schools (either answer is acceptable)
100
KKK is an acronym for this group
What is the Klu Klux Klan
200
This Muslim civil rights leader was assassinated on February 21, 1965.
Who is Malcolm X
200
unfriendly; opposed
What is hostile
200
This law enforcement officer arrested James on a trumped up charge of speeding and held all three men long enough for him to tip off the KKK.
Who is Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price
200
This is the state Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman were in receiving training when they learned of the burning of Mt. Zion church.
What is Ohio
200
More lynchings (hangings) took place in this state than any other southern state.
What is Mississippi.
300
This civil rights leader led the March on Washington in 1963.
Who is Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
300
The use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance/cooperation
What is coercion
300
This "middle" brother was born in New York City and grew up in a home where free speech was encouraged.
Who is Andrew Goodman
300
Date that Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were murdered.
What is June 21, 1964
300
NAACP stands for
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
400
Legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified and permitted racial segregation as not being in breach of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens, and other federal civil rights laws.
What is separate but equal
400
Stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own
What is bigotry
400
White, married social worker from New York City. One of his nicknames was Mickey.
Who is Michael Schwerner
400
This "council" was a leading force in the 50's and 60's whose goal was to intimidate blacks and keep them "in line"
What is the Citizen's Council
400
This is the reason many blacks did not want to be seen with civil rights workers
What is fear of retribution/retaliation
500
This Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment
500
A feeling of strong dislike or ill will that tends to display itself in action
What is animosity
500
Holy man accused of planning and organizing the murders
Who is Preacher Edgar Ray Killen
500
What county in Mississippi did the murders take place
What is Neshoba County
500
Manner in which the men's bodies were disposed of
What is bury the bodies at an earthen dam using a bulldozer