Question 1

Who integrated baseball?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 2

Who integrated the armed forces?

Accepted Answer

President Truman

Question 3

Which court case ruled that separate schools were inherently unequal?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 4

Which lawyer argued that segregation was unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshal

Question 5

Which court case ruled that separate, but equal was constitutional?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 6

Who was murdered for whistling at a white woman?

Accepted Answer

Emmett Till

Question 7

What was the name of the protest against bus segregation?

Accepted Answer

Montgomery bus boycott

Question 8

Who sparked a protest when she refused to give up her bus seat?

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 9

Who helped inspire non-violent methods, from India?

Accepted Answer

Gandhi

Question 10

Who advocated breaking laws to right injustice?

Accepted Answer

Henry David Thoreau

Question 11

What was the name of the students who integrated an Arkansas school?

Accepted Answer

Little Rock 9

Question 12

Which president ordered federal troops to protect students integrating the school?

Accepted Answer

President Eisenhower

Question 13

What was the name of the store where they had a sit in?

Accepted Answer

Woolworth's

Question 14

What does the SCLC stand for? What did they do?

Accepted Answer

SCLC, challenged non-enforcement of laws

Question 15

What was the name of the group that was arrested for not following Southern segregation laws on interstate buses?

Accepted Answer

Freedom Riders

Question 16

What was Martin Luther King's reaction to the Children's Crusade?

Accepted Answer

We've gone too far to turn back

Question 17

What was President Kennedy's reaction to the Children's Crusade?

Accepted Answer

An injured child is a price we cannot afford

Question 18

What was Malcolm X's reaction to the Children's Crusade?

Accepted Answer

Real men don't put their children on the firing line

Question 19

What was the Birmingham Campaign?

Accepted Answer

a series of coordinated marches and sit-ins

Question 20

Who were leaders of the Birmingham Campaign?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr and Ralph Abernathy

Question 21

What were the results of the Birmingham Campaign?

Accepted Answer

Lunch counters, restrooms and water fountains were integrated, public opinion was turned in favor of the protestors, those imprisoned during the protests were released

Question 22

Where did the Children's Crusade start at?

Accepted Answer

16th Street Baptist Church

Question 23

Why did people march on Washington in August of 1963?

Accepted Answer

In support of the civil rights bill

Question 24

What was the name of Martin Luther King's famous speech given in Washington D.C.?

Accepted Answer

I have a dream!

Question 25

Explain the events of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

Accepted Answer

It was bombed by members of the Ku Klux Klan,

Question 26

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Accepted Answer

Made segregation illegal in all public facilities

Question 27

What was the emphasis of Freedom Summer?

Accepted Answer

voting

Question 28

What methods were used to keep eligible voters from the polls in Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

Poll taxes, Literacy tests, Intimidation

Question 29

What is the 24th amendment?

Accepted Answer

It eliminated the poll tax. It stated that the right to vote cannot be denied by any state. It stated that congress has the power to enforce the amendment.

Question 30

After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans in the deep South could vote for the first time since...?

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 31

Why did the election of Richard Nixon signal the end of the Civil Rights Era?

Accepted Answer

The Vietnam War and Later Watergate occupied national attention

Question 32

What does the NAACP stand for?

Accepted Answer

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 33

What were the original purposes of the NAACP?

Accepted Answer

Promote equality of rights,

Question 34

What happened in the 1940's that helped promote desegregation?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball.

Question 35

What is the difference between de facto and de jure segregation?

Accepted Answer

De-facto segregation is not based on laws.

Question 36

Why were federal troops necessary when James Meredith wanted to go to the University of Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

He had been denied admission and troops were necessary for his safety and to enforce his right to attend

Question 37

Who was Medgar Evers?

Accepted Answer

He was an organizer for the NAACP in Mississippi who publicly investigated the murder of Emmett Till. He was assassinated and his murderer was not sentenced for 20 years.

Question 38

What was the purpose of the Fair Housing Act of 1968?

Accepted Answer

It made it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin

Question 39

What happened during Freedom Summer?

Accepted Answer

Thousands of volunteers (many were young, white northerners) worked to register black Mississippi voters,

Question 40

What were the results of the Children's Crusade?

Accepted Answer

public opinion changed in favor of the protestors,

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