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25 Civil Rights Q's
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This good looking dark skin man led the 13 month bus boycott in Montgomery. He was also a very devoted baptist pastor. | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| These horrid southern laws prevented blacks from sharing the same public facilities such as theaters, restrooms, water fountains, restaurants, buses (you name it) with whites. | Jim Crow laws |
| a landmark court case that ruled segregated schools were unconstitutional. | Brown v. Board of Education |
| This happened in Greensboro, NC where four students sat at a "whites only" lunch counter in a restaurant. | Sit-In Movement |
| a name given to nine students of color that enrolled in an "all-white" school called Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas | Little Rock Nine |
| This Muslim black leader believed that violence was the way to gain rights | Malcom X |
| The site of a bombing which killed four young African-American children and injured many others | 16th Street Baptist Church |
| Woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery and was arrested. Caused the locals to organize a boycott in protest | Rosa Parks |
| the year of the Birmingham protest | 1963 |
| Given on the march on Washington by Martin Luther King Jr. | The "I Have a Dream" speech |
| The first African-American to play Major League Baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| The rights you have as a member of society | Civil Rights |
| Group that believed that African-Americans should rely more on themselves by controlling their own comunites and businesses | Black Power Movement |
| activists used buses to protest segregation in interstate terminals | Freedom Riders |
| a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites | Black Panthers |
| a separation of people based on race or culture | Segregation |
| the bringing together of all races | Integration |
| a system of spreading opinions or beliefs that are designed to either help or hurt a cause | Propaganda |
| Supreme court decision that said that public places must be racially segregated, and that the segregated places must be of equal status- the idea of "separate but equal" was established | Plessy V. Ferguson |
| this law placed a nationwide prohibition against the denial of the right to vote based on literacy tests (if people could read) | Voting Act of 1965 |
| the year of the Brown v. Board of E. court case | 1954 |
| School that the Little Rock Nine went to that caused racist whities to whine and get all butt hurt | Little Rock Central High School |
| year of the freedom rides | 1961 |
| year of the Mississippi riots | 1962 |
| The demonstration march from Selma to Montgomery was nicknamed "Bloody Sunday" due to the brutality and violence troops used against the peaceful demonstrators. | Bloody Sunday |
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