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Civil Rights Trivia

Civil Rights Trivia. Name the Person. Outraged over the arrest of this woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott He became the chosen leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Civil Rights Trivia

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  1. Civil Rights Trivia

  2. Name the Person • Outraged over the arrest of this woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott • He became the chosen leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott • He was an influential minister of the Black Muslims who preached hope, defiance and black pride – he was assassinated • The brutal murder of this 14 year old Chicago native who was visiting relatives in Mississippi is often looked at as being the beginning of the Civil Rights movement • This former Governor of Alabama was vehemently against desegregation and stood in front of the U. of Alabama to keep 2 African Americans from entering the university.

  3. Legislation and Court Rulings • This court case banned racial segregation in public schools and overturned the ‘separate but equal’ ruling • This court case established ‘separate but equal’ and led to the Jim Crow laws • This act banned discrimination in employment and public housing • This amendment banned poll taxes • This act gave the federal government powerful tools to break down long standing barriers to Africa American Voting Rights

  4. Name the group • This was an interracial group that traveled by bus through the South where they switched roles on the bus and at all stops; whites sat in the back and blacks sat in the front • This group outlined their goals in their 10 point program and created the ‘pig’ nickname for police • The mission of this group created in 1909 was to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights to all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination • This group played a major role in the sit-in movement before abandoning the philosophy of nonviolence under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael • This project gathered college students from across the nation to go South and register African Americans to vote while also teaching summer school to African American children

  5. Name the Term • This is when someone nonviolently protests an unjust law • A movement calling for African Americans to rely on themselves to achieve change • An organized agreement not to buy or use a certain product in order to exert pressure to make change • Segregation that exists through custom and practice rather than by law • Programs that gave preference to minorities and women in hiring and admissions

  6. Name the Place • The goal of the March on _________, which took place August 28, 1963, was to obtain jobs, freedom and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • In order to push for voting rights, MLK organized a 54 mile walk from this city to Montgomery • In 1957, President Eisenhower used federal troops to integrate public schools in this city (9 students attended Central High) • James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr in this city

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