The Birmingham Campaign Ruby Bridges MLK Assassination Rosa Parks Miscellaneous Civil Rights
100
Marches
The Birmingham Campaign mostly consisted of this type of protest.
100
Desegregating public school.
It's what Ruby is famous for.
100
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Age of MLK at the time of his assassination (within two years).
100
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Rosa Parks inspired this Civil Rights protest.
100
University of Mississippi
James Meredith was the first black student to attend this university in this historically raciSSt southern state.
200
1963.
The year the Campaign began.
200
Louisiana
Ruby went to school in this segregated Southern state.
200
James Earl Ray
The man convicted of killing MLK.
200
False. It lasted 381 days.
True or False: The boycott lasted nearly 10 months.
200
Black Power
A civil rights leader named Stokely Carmichael first coined the famous phrase about this kind of power.
300
Martin Luther King and Southern Christian Leadership Conference
MLK led the SCLC organized the Campaign. The acronyms stand for these two things.
300
They removed their children from the school.
White parents protested Bridges inclusion this way.
300
The Lorraine
The name of the hotel in Memphis, Tennessee where MLK was assassinated.
300
Supreme Court
This government body ruled the segregation of buses unconstitutional.
300
Dr. Martin Luther King
This civil rights leader believed that citizens have a moral duty to disobey unfair laws.
400
What is
MLK wrote his famous letter from this place in Birmingham. It was addressed to the city's religious leaders who had sided with the establishment.
400
Screams and Taunts
Angry segregationists Ruby voiced their displeasure this way as she walked to school.
400
A museum
What is the Lorraine Motel called now.
400
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Rosa Parks was a member of the NAACP, an acronym for this.
400
Ghandi
Martin Luther King famously borrowed his non-violence tactics from this civil rights warrior.
500
Sit-ins.
These forms of protest were also used in Birmingham's libraries, lunch counters and white churches.
500
Passed an exam.
Ruby was chosen in part, because she was one of five students who did this.
500
London
Ray, the assassin was arrested in this European city two months after King was killed.
500
$14
The amount Parks was fined for not giving up her seat.
500
Whistling at a white woman in a convenience store.
Emmett Till was killed by white men for allegedly doing this.






Period 2: Civil Rights Jeopardy

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