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Question 1

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Answer 1

Organization founded to fight segregation and racial discrimination in the U.S.

Question 2

integration

Answer 2

Mixing of different racial groups

Question 3

Jackie Robinson

Answer 3

First black Major League Baseball player. He was signed by Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey.

Question 4

Rosa Parks

Answer 4

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, AL. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted over one year and ended when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.

Question 5

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 5

African American minister who was a civil rights leader. He made the “I have a dream” speech and was assassinated in 1968.

Question 6

Which president ended segregation in the U.S. military?

Answer 6

President Truman

Question 7

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 7

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

Question 8

Little Rock Nine (1957)

Answer 8

African American students admitted to Central High School. The Governor of Arkansas prevented African American students from attending the school and sent the Arkansas National Guard to the school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops to escort the nine students for over one year.

Question 9

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 9

American civil rights lawyer for the NAACP and first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.