| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| These laws mandated racial segregation in public spaces in the South. | Jim Crow laws | 91%
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| These women refused to give up their seats on buses in Montgomery, leading to a 385 day bus boycott. | Rosa Parks | 91%
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| This leader of the civil rights movement gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington in 1963. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 90%
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| Federal troops were sent to this city to help nine students integrate a public high school. | Little Rock | 73%
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| This 1954 Supreme Court case ended segregation in education. | Brown v. Board of Education | 70%
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| This teenager is brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman. | Emmett Till | 64%
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| This president issued an executive order in 1948 ending segregation in the military | Harry S. Truman | 61%
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| These three major civil rights legislations were enacted during the 1960s. | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 60%
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| This activist was associated with the Nation of Islam and provided the intellectual foundation for the Black Power movement | Malcom X | 54%
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| These three major civil rights legislations were enacted during the 1960s. | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | 53%
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| Activists marched between this city and Montgomery to advocate for voting rights in 1965. (Hint: It was the topic of a 2014 movie) | Selma | 49%
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| This group rode a Greyhound bus through the South to protest segregated bus terminals. | Freedom Riders | 46%
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| This revolutionary socialist political organization was founded to challenge police brutality in Oakland. | Black Panther Party | 39%
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| Four Black students in this city refused to leave a white-only lunch counter until they were served. | Greensboro | 31%
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| This kindergartner was the first Black student at an elementary school in Louisiana. | Ruby Bridges | 25%
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| These women refused to give up their seats on buses in Montgomery, leading to a 385 day bus boycott. | Claudette Colvin | 16%
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| These three major civil rights legislations were enacted during the 1960s. | Fair Housing Act of 1968 | 14%
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