Jeopardy

1. Jeopardy Important People Nonviolent Resistance Role of the Government Radical Change Success and Failure Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500

2. Important Peoplefor $100 This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, helping to start a bus boycott that ended segregation in transportation in the city.

3. Important People:$100 Answer Rosa Parks

4. Important Peoplefor $200 This governor of Arkansas refused to allow African-American students to integrate Central High School, sending in the Arkansas National Guard to stop them from entering the school.

5. Important People:$200 Answer Orval Faubus

6. Important Peoplefor $300 He became the national spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, before breaking off from the group and advocating his own idea of Black Nationalism.

7. Important People:$300 Answer Malcolm X

8. Important Peoplefor $400 These two men formed the Black Panther Party in the 1960’s, and called for “land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace” for African Americans.

9. Important People:$400 Answer Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

10. Important Peoplefor $500 This lawyer for the NAACP successfully argued that segregation in public schools was psychologically damaging for African American students, and should be illegal in Brown v. Board of Education.

11. Important People:$500 Answer Thurgood Marshall

12. Nonviolent Resistancefor $100 This was the city in which Martin Luther King and other activists practiced nonviolent resistance by starting a successful bus boycott.

13. Nonviolent Resistance:$100 Answer Montgomery, Alabama

14. Nonviolent Resistancefor $200 The organization led by Martin Luther King Jr. that advocated nonviolent resistance and led such protests as the March on Washington.

15. Nonviolent Resistance:$200 Answer SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference

16. Nonviolent Resistancefor $300 Method of protest in which college students protested segregation at lunch counters by sitting at “whites only” counters and refusing to leave.

17. Nonviolent Resistance:$300 Answer Sit-Ins

18. Nonviolent Resistancefor $400 City where Bull Connor set fire hoses and police dogs on nonviolent protestors.

19. Nonviolent Resistance:$400 Answer Birmingham, Alabama

20. Nonviolent Resistancefor $500 Name for the drive to increase Voter registration in Mississippi In 1965

21. Nonviolent Resistance:$500 Answer Freedom Summer

22. Role of the Governmentfor $100 President who acted to desegregate Public high schools in Arkansas only after weeks of Southern resistance.

23. Role of the Government:$100 Answer Eisenhower

24. Role of the Government:for $200 President who protected activists trying to end interstate bus segregation only after activists were attacked.

25. Role of the Government:$200 Answer John F. Kennedy

26. Role of the Governmentfor $300 Name of the law passed after Freedom Summer and “Bloody Sunday” in Selma

27. Role of the Government:$300 Answer Voting Rights Act of 1965

28. Role of the Governmentfor $400 Name of the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington encouraging the government to pass a new Civil Rights Act

29. Role of the Government:$400 Answer “I Have a Dream”

30. Role of the Governmentfor $500 Term for the group of students that the federal government hesitated to help integrate into Central High School

31. Role of the Government:$500 Answer Little Rock Nine

32. Radical Changefor $100 Name of the spokesperson for the Nation of Islam who gave the “Ballot or the Bullet” speech

33. Radical Change:$100 Answer Malcolm X

34. Radical Changefor $200 Name of the belief that African-Americans should form their own institutions, like schools and businesses, separate from white society.

35. Radical Change:$200 Answer Black Nationalism

36. Radical Changefor $300 Political party formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale that called for black power

37. Radical Change:$300 Answer The Black Panthers

38. Radical Changefor $400 Head of SNCC who called for “black power” in a speech after taking over James Meredith’s march through Mississippi

39. Radical Change:$400 Answer Stokely Carmichael

40. Radical Changefor $500 Leader of the Nation of Islam who sanctioned Malcolm X for speaking out against President Kennedy

41. Radical Change:$500 Answer Elijah Muhammad

42. Success and Failurefor $100 Term describing systems that sent black students from cities to predominately white suburbs to integrate schools

43. Success and Failure:$100 Answer Busing

44. Success and Failurefor $200 Name of the first African-American admitted to the University of Mississippi

45. Success and Failure:$200 Answer James Meredith

46. Success and Failurefor $300 Term describing hiring and educational practices that give preference to ethnic minorities and women to make up for previous discrimination

47. Success and Failure:$300 Answer Affirmative Action

48. Success and Failurefor $400 Supreme Court case that ruled that busing was unconstitutional

49. Success and Failure:$400 Answer Milliken v. Bradley

50. Success and Failurefor $500 Name of the protest movement begun my MLK and continued by Ralph Abernathy that called for more antipoverty legislation