Vocabulary
Kind of Protest
Who
Events
Random
100
What is segregation?
Keeping people apart by race, gender, etc.
100
What kind of protest was this?
A march
100
Who became the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
a) Thurgood Marshall
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Malcolm X
d) John Lewis
a) Thurgood Marshall
100
What event started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a) The March on Washington
b) Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat
c) The Freedom Rides
d) The Greensboro Sit-in
b) Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat
100
What did literacy tests primarily aim to prevent?
a) School integration
b) Bus integration
c) Black Americans from voting
d) Housing discrimination
c) Black Americans from voting
200
300: What is a literacy test?
a) A school exam
b) An unfair voting requirement
c) A job application
d) A driver's license test
b) An unfair voting requirement
200
What kind of protest is this?
A sit-in
200
Which civil rights leader advocated for change "by any means necessary"?
Malcolm X
200
What was "Bloody Sunday"?
a) A sit-in protest
b) A bus boycott
c) Violence against marchers in Selma
d) A Supreme Court decision
c) Violence against marchers in Selma
200
What was the main focus of the Chicago Freedom Movement?
a) Voting rights
b) School integration
c) Housing discrimination
d) Bus segregation
c) Housing discrimination
300
What is integration?
Bringing different racial groups together
300
This bus is empty. What kind of protest is this from?
A boycott
300
Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
300
What happened at the Greensboro Woolworth's?
The first major lunch counter sit-in
300
Which civil rights law came first?
a) Voting Rights Act
b) Civil Rights Act of 1964
c) Fair Housing Act
d) Education Act
b) Civil Rights Act of 1964
400
What are Jim Crow laws?
Laws that enforced segregation
400
What kind of protest is this from?
A freedom ride
400
Who were the Greensboro Four?
a) Civil rights lawyers
b) Freedom Riders
c) College students who staged sit-ins
d) Bus boycott leaders
c) College students who staged sit-ins
400
What major event occurred at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963?
a) Freedom Rides began
b) March on Washington
c) Selma March ended
d) First sit-in protest
b) March on Washington
400
What percentage of Black voters were registered to vote in Selma before the Voting Rights Act?
a) 50%
b) 25%
c) 10%
d) 2%
d) 2%
500
What was lynching?
A form of racial violence in which Black people were killed
500
Complete the sentence:
Martin Luther King Jr. learned about _____ protest from Mahatma Ghandi. This is different from Malcolm X's method of protest and action.
Non-violent protest
500
Who was Bayard Rustin?
a) A Supreme Court Justice
b) A civil rights activist who advised Dr. King and helped organize protests
c) The governor of Alabama
d) A leader of the NAACP
b) A civil rights activist who advised Dr. King and helped organize protests
500
What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?
Nine students integrated Central High
500
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 make illegal?
a) Only school segregation
b) Only voting discrimination
c) Only housing discrimination
d) All forms of public discrimination
d) All forms of public discrimination