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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Supreme Court case established "separate but equal" | Plessy V Ferguson (1896) |
| What laws created separate public facilities in the south | Jim Crow laws |
| what group began to sue over separate facilities | The National Association For The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
| What case made segregation in public schools illegal | Brown V Board of Education of Topeka Kansas |
| What lawyer in the case went on to serve on the Supreme Court | Thurgood Marshall |
| Who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| Who did Jackie Robinson play for | He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers |
| Why did Rosa Parks get arrested | She wouldn't give up her seat for a white person |
| Rosa Parks arrest started the | Montgomery Boycott |
| What Atlanta preacher emerged as the leader of the Civil Rights movement | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Where did nine students try to integrate the high school in 1957 | Little Rock Arkansas |
| Where did the first sit-in take place | North Carolina Greensboro |
| How many people were arrested during the sit-in protests | Over 1500 demonstrates |
| What name was given to the buses that tried to integrate the interstate bus system | Freedom Riders |
| Why were they (freedom riders) trying to integrate the interstate bus system | To challenge and test the system of rest stations |
| What organization of northern and southern students was formed to fight segregation | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| Who was the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi | James Meredith |
| What Civil Rights leader was killed in June 1963 | Medgar Evers |
| What famous speech did Martin Luther King give during the March on Washington | I have a dream |
| What group increased illegal activities to stop integration | Ku Klux Klan |
| What happened in November 1963 | President Kennedy was assassinated |
| What Amendment ended poll taxes during elections | 24th Amendment |
| What president signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act | President Lyndon Johnson |