Black History Quiz: Part II

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    • 1. After "separate but equal" facilities were ruled constitutional in Plessy vs. Ferfuson, the case was used to justify segregation in...
    • 2. Key testimony in the 1954 case of Brown vs. the Board of Education came from a professor who studdied the impact of segregation on children using what?
    • 3. Who was the lead attorney for the NAACP in the Supreme Court case that found public school segregation unconstitutional?
    • 4. The 1955 arrest of this civil rights freedom fighter sparked a bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala.
    • 5. What liberal white Southerner founded a school that became a civil rights boot camp?
    • 6. Which of the following was founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders?
    • 7. In 1957, nine black students in Little Rock, Ark., braved a cursing, threatening mob as they tried to enter what?
    • 8. What happened at the Greensboro, N.C., F.W. Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960?
    • 9. In 1963, NAACP's first Mississippi feild diretor was killed in front of his Jackson, Miss., home, Name him.
    • 10. Which song is not identified with the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s?
    • 11. At what event did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
    • 12. Who was the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi?
    • 13. Who's often credited with coining the phrase "Black Power"?
    • 14. What was Mississippi Freedom Summer?
    • 15. What song did Mahalia Jackson sing before Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
    • 16. What black leader rebuffed Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence approach and pledged to win equality "by any means necessary."
    • 17. Who helped write The Autobiography of Malcom X, then later penned the Pulitzer-winning Roots?
    • 18. In what Southern city did police Chief Bull Connor say that "blood would run in th streets" before he agreed to integrate?
    • 19. In a 1963 TV speech, what leader said, "One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free"?
    • 20. Who's the one-time segregationist who made two serioius bids for the presidency before being paralyzed by a would-be assassin's bullet?
    • 21. Who was killed on Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church?
    • 22. In the mid-'60s, riots erupted in cities throughout the United States. What city burned shortly after President Lyndon B. Johnson seigned the Voting Rights Act in 1965?
    • 23. Which NAACP leader was often referred to as "Mr. Civil Rights"?
    • 24. Which of the following established fair employment practices and prohibited discrimination in public places?

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