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Who was the Black man who won 4 gold medals at the olympics for track and field?
Jesse Owens
Who was the first Black major league baseball player and the first to letter in 4 sports at UCLA?
Jackie Robinson
What was Jackie Robinson's jersey number?
42
What president desegregates the army in 1948?
Truman
Where did Brown v. Board of Education occur?
Topeka, Kansas
Who was the Brown family's lawyer who was later the first Black supreme court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
What supreme court justice believed that separate was not in fact equal?
Earl Warren
When was the Civil Rights movement?
1954-1968
What court case established separate but equal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who was the Black football player whose jaw was broken by a white opposing player who attended Drake University?
Johnny Bright
What president believed things were changing too fast?
Eisenhower
Who is the first Black child to go to a previously all-white school?
Ruby Bridges
Who was a 14 year old Black kid who was murdered after allegedly whistling at a woman?
Emmett Till
In what town was Till murdered?
Money, Mississippi
What was the name of Emmett Till's mother?
Mamie Till
Who murdered Emmett Till? (2)
Roy Bryant
Milam
Who was the sheriff who was supposed to be investigating the case?
Strider
Who were the Black men who agreed to testify? (2)
Reed, Wright
What are 3 methods of non-violence?
- civil disobedience
- passive resistance
- satyagraha ("soul force")
What are four organizations that used non-violence?
1. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
2. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
3. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
4. Congress of Racial Equality (CRE)
Who was the influential member of the NAACP who in an act of protest refused to give up her seat on a bus?
Rosa Parks
Who was a Black woman before Rosa Parks who refused to get up on a bus?
Calvin
Where where nine Black students enrolled in a white school to test Brown v. Board?
Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
Who was the only senior and the only to graduate from Central High School in the Little Rock Nine?
Green
Who was the governor of Arkansas who sent in the State Troops to prevent the Little Rock Nine from entering the High School?
Faubus
Eisenhower forces Faubus to pull the troops, then sends in what to protect the Little Rock Nine?
federal troops
Who was the the member of the Little Rock Nine who was expelled after dumping chili on a racist student?
Minnie Jean Brown
Who was the student who was not accepted to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) because he was Black?
Meredith
How many people were found dead after the riots relating to James Meredith?
2
Who was the field secretary of the NAACP who helped Meredith and was shot?
Evers
Who murdered Evers?
De La Beckwith
What amendment got rid of poll taxes?
24th
What was the March on Washington in support of?
JFK's Civil Rights Bill
What historic anniversary did the march take place on?
100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Who originally proposed the march?
A. Philip Randolph
What is the mountain in Georgia with a memorial for confederate leaders carved into the side?
Stone Mountain
What anniversary did Stone Mountain open on?
100th anniversary of Lincoln's death
When was the Civil Rights Act?
1964
What was the movement to get African Americans to register to vote?
Freedom Summer
Who were the 3 CORE members who were killed by KKK members during Freedom Summer?
Goodman
Chaney
Schwerner
What did the 1965 Voting Rights Act establish?
no more literacy tests
What is the walk Meredith goes on to register to vote?
Walk Against Fear
Who was the man who was born in to slavery and registered to vote for the first time at 106 years old?
Fondren
Who shot Meredith on his Walk Against Fear?
Norvell
Who was the police commissioner in Birmingham?
Bull Connor
What was the event in which 4 girls were killed while praying at church?
"Bombingham"
What was Malcolm X's birth name?
Malcolm Little
What was Malcom X's nickname?
Detroit Red
Who is the leader of the Nation of Islam?
Elijah Muhammad
Who was the wrestler who joined the Nation of Islam?
Cassius Clay --> Muhammad Ali
What is the pilgrimage every muslim must take?
Hajj to Mecca
What did Malcom X change his name to?
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
When is Malcolm X assassinated?
1965
Who was swayed from strictly peaceful protest after being arrested for the 27th time after participating in the March against fear?
Carmichael
What Black power group was formed in 1966?
Black Panthers for Self Defense
Who founded the Black Panthers? (2)
Newton
Seale
Who joins the Black Panthers as a spokesperson?
Carmichael
Name 3 programs the Black Panthers offered.
free breakfast
survival
free groceries
urged people to vote
clothing
health clinics
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
2 ideals of the Nation of Islam
African Nationalism
Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam leader who proceeded Muhammad
Farrakhan
what did the SNCC do to white people in 1966
made them leave
what did the black panthers do
“police the police”
minister of info & chairperson
elaine brown
person who focused on political education
angela davis
party platform written by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 for the Black Panther Party
Ten-Point Program
what movement made MLK more acceptable
militant black power
riots were motivated by anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department, as well as grievances over employment discrimination, residential segregation, and poverty in L.A.
Watts riots
“If American don’t come around, we’re going to burn it down.”
H. Rapp Brown
winners of 1968 olympics fist up
Tommie Smith
Carlos
what workers did MLK support in 1968
sanitation workers
final speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.[1][2][3] on April 3, 1968,[4] at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee
mountaintop sermon
who assassinated MLK in 1968
ray