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Civil Rights Test Review Game. Everyone starts with $20 Each numbered question is worth $5 for the correct answer. Incorrect answer=$0 awarded for that question. Therefore, each player either earns $5 or $0 for each question.
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Civil Rights Test Review Game • Everyone starts with $20 • Each numbered question is worth $5 for the correct answer. • Incorrect answer=$0 awarded for that question. Therefore, each player either earns $5 or $0 for each question. • In between each 5 questions is a bonus round. Players will place a wager before seeing the question. Players may not wager more money than they currently possess. • A correct bonus question answer results in the wagered amount being added to the current total. An incorrect answer results in the wagered amount being subtracted from the current total $ amount.
1) $5 • What nickname did Dr. King give his non-violent civil right movement?
ANSWER • Soul Force
2) $5 • What Civil Rights organization did Dr. King create to unite African-Americans across the country and teach them how to be non-violent while protesting against discrimination and inequality?
ANSWER • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
3) $5 • What civil rights organization fought for the equality of all races in the court system?
ANSWER • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
4) $5 • Whose arrest in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 allowed Dr. King to get his first job organizing a bus boycott that lasted just over 1 year?
ANSWER • Rosa Parks
5) $5 • Name the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was killed in Money, Mississippi for breaking a black code?
ANSWER • Emmett Till
BONUS QUESTION • What 3 people did Dr. King pattern his non-violent civil disobedience movement after?
BONUS QUESTION ANSWER • Jesus • Gandhi • Henry David Thoreau
6) $5 • What was the Supreme Court ruling in the 1896 case of Plessy vs. Ferguson that made segregation legal in the U.S. for 60 years? (Hint: 3 words)
ANSWER • Separate, but equal.
7) $5 • What nickname was given to segregation laws in the south?
ANSWER • Jim Crow laws.
8) $5 • What Supreme Court case in 1954 ruled that “Separate, but equal” was unconstitutional?
ANSWER • Brown vs. The Board of Education.
9) $5 • Who was the NAACP lawyer that won the Brown vs. The Board of Education court case and later became the first black member of The Supreme Court?
ANSWER • Thurgood Marshall
10) $5 • What high school in Little Rock, Arkansas refused to integrate and forced the military to escort 9 African-Americans into the school?
ANSWER • Central High School
Bonus Question • List 3 voting restrictions that white southerners imposed upon African-Americans to keep them from voting?
BONUS QUESTION ANSWER • Literacy Tests • Grandfather Clause • Poll Taxes.
11) $5 • The goal of the sit-ins was to “Fill the _______.”
ANSWER • Jails
12) $5 • Name the group that protested against segregation on Interstate buses.
ANSWER • The Freedom Riders
13) $5 • James Meredith required military troops to escort him into this southern university after Governor Wallace disobeyed a Supreme Court order and refused to let him in?
ANSWER • Ole Miss University
14) $5 • At what national monument did Dr. King deliver his famous “I Have A Dream” speech?
ANSWER • Lincoln Memorial
15) $5 • Who shot and killed Dr. King in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968?
ANSWER • James Earl Ray
Bonus Question • What does the acronym SNCC stand for?
Bonus Round Answer • The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
16) $5 • Who converted Malcolm X to the Black Muslims (Nation of Islam)?
ANSWER • Elijah Muhhamed
17) $5 • What slogan did Stokely Carmichael coin?
ANSWER • Black Power!
18) $5 • What did Malcolm X begin teaching after returning from his trip to Mecca?
ANSWER • Ballots or Bullets
19) $5 • The Black Panthers were created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. What was the slogan they borrowed from the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong?
ANSWER • Power flows out of the barrel of a gun!
20) $5 • What current government quota system was implemented in the 1960’s to provide greater opportunities for minorities? Hint: Many white people consider it to be reverse discrimination.
ANSWER • Affirmative Action