Who said “Sharecropping is hard work. The day before Ruby was born I carried 90 lbs. of cotton on my back”.
100
December, Alabama
What month and in what state was Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus?
200
Norman Rockwell
Who was the artist inspired by what he saw in a magazine
200
Johnson Lockett Elementary
What was ruby's first school
200
Jimmie H. Davis
Who threatened to close Louisiana’s public schools
200
“They threw eggs and rocks at the children who left the school".
What did the passerby say about the segregationists?
200
James Meredith
Who was the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi?
300
Ku Klux Klan
Who were the people who burned the cross on pg.33
300
William Frantz Public School
What was ruby's second school
300
J. Skelly Wright
Who blocked segregationists over and over
300
The New York Times
Who said on page 34, they said “I don’t think there’s any amount of time that’s going to bring any cooperation from the legislature or the officials of Louisiana
300
President Johnson, July and 1964
Who in what month and year signed the Civil Rights Act
400
France Street
What was the street Ruby lived on
400
Little Rock, Arkansas
Where did Eisenhower order troops to enforce school desegregation
400
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who was a well-known supporter of integration
400
U.S. News and World Report
Who said on pg.18 "when the Negroes entered the school many white pupils walked out".
400
250,000
How many Americans joined the Civil Rights March on Washington
500
March,1965
What month and year did the march from Selma to Montgomery
500
Memphis,Tennessee
Where was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
500
Dr. Robert Coles
Who was Ruby’s psychiatrist
500
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Who said “ There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together, where each have there own job and house and where all children receive as much education as there minds can absorb”.