Civil Rights Review Game

Question 1

Who was the Spokesperson for the Student Violent Coordinating Committee led a sit-in movement in Nashville, Spoke at the March on Washington & was attacked on the Pettus Bridge leading a voting rights march?

Answer 1

John Lewis

Question 2

Who Gained fame and notoriety for his work on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Part of the SCLC and used only Non-violent peaceful protest

Answer 2

Martian Luther King Jr.

Question 3

Who was a Black Muslim leader who urged blacks to separate from white society

Answer 3

Malcom X

Question 4

Who was a veteran that became the first African American to Attend the university of Mississippi?

Answer 4

James Meredeth

Question 5

Who was the Civil rights leader who became impatient with nonviolence and called for “Black Power”

Answer 5

Stokely Carmicheal

Question 6

What planned event helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 6

Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a White Man

Question 7

What method was used to desegregate lunch counters?

Answer 7

sit-in

Question 8

What Supreme Court Case that desegregated schools?

Answer 8

Brown vs. BOE

Question 9

Even though school segregation was deemed unconstitutional from Brown v. BOE, why did it take until 1957 at Little Rock High School for integration to slowly begin?

Answer 9

A lack of presidential enforcement

Question 10

What act greatly increased Black/African American political power in the south?

Answer 10

The Voting RIghts act of 1965

Question 11

What organization was motivated by the story of Emmitt Till, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its leadership was made up of pastors/religious leaders?

Answer 11

SCLC (Southern Christian Leaders Confrence)

Question 12

What organization was made up of mostly college students and gained notoriety from sit-in movements it led?

Answer 12

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

Question 13

What organization was made up of Black/African Americans who became impatient with non-violent peaceful protest and decided they would protect their own communities using their second amendment rights?

Answer 13

Black Panthers

Question 14

What organization led a voter education movement in the south called Freedom Summer?

Answer 14

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

Question 15

What religious organization was led by Malcolm X and help to inspire the Black Power Movement?

Answer 15

Nation of Islam

Question 16

What technology helped to motivate and inform the nation of the atrocities happening in the south?

Answer 16

Television

Question 17

Give a modern example of non-violent peaceful civil disoberdiance.

Answer 17

Students staging a walk out on campus for gun safety. This is because technically students can receive punishment for leaving class without permission so though they are breaking school rules for a just cause they still have to accept the penalty just like the sit-in protestors were arrested for their actions.

Question 18

What ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?

Answer 18

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 19

What act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had not registered to vote, and authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections?

Answer 19

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 20

__________ is segragation by tradition or custom and ______________ is segregation by law

Answer 20

De facto

De jure