Dates

Question 1

When were Jim Crowe laws implemented?

Answer 1

1876-1965.

Question 2

When was the KKK founded?

Answer 2

1866.

Question 3

When did lynching come to an end?

Answer 3

1952.

Question 4

When were over 40 homes bombed in Atlanta?

Answer 4

1951-2.

Question 5

When was a bombing of a Baptist church in Birmingham?

Answer 5

1963.

Question 6

When was Medgar Evers killed?

Answer 6

1963.

Question 7

When was the murder of 3 civil rights workers?

Answer 7

1964.

Question 8

When was the separate but equal law ruled?

Answer 8

1896.

Question 9

When did the supreme court decide that segregation in schools?

Answer 9

17th May 1954.

Question 10

When did membership of the KKK rise dramatically?

Answer 10

1955.

Question 11

When was the southern manifesto issued?

Answer 11

March 1956.

Question 12

When were elementary school sorted by area rather than colour?

Answer 12

January 1956.

Question 13

When was Rosa Parks arrested for breaking the bus segregation law?

Answer 13

December 1st 1955.

Question 14

When was King arrested?

Answer 14

January 1956.

Question 15

How many blacks refused to use the bus service?

Answer 15

17,000.

Question 16

When was bus segregation made illegal?

Answer 16

20th December 1956.

Question 17

When did 2 federal judges rule that segregation was unconstitutional?

Answer 17

June 1956.

Question 18

When was segregation announced illegal in schools?

Answer 18

1954.

Question 19

When did the Arkansas press try to force desegregation?

Answer 19

1957.

Question 20

When did the students get into the school?

Answer 20

Monday 23rd September.

Question 21

When did CORE organise the freedom rides for?

Answer 21

1961.

Question 22

When did the Freedom rides start?

Answer 22

May 4th 1961.

Question 23

When did the riders have to fly to New Orleans?

Answer 23

15th May.

Question 24

When did the riders get arrested and taken 150 miles from Birmingham?

Answer 24

17th May.

Question 25

When did King talk to the riders?

Answer 25

21st May.

Question 26

When were 27 riders arrested for going into the white only waiting room?

Answer 26

24th May.

Question 27

When did the regulation to stop segregation on interstate buses come into effect?

Answer 27

November 1st 1961.

Question 28

When were blacks facing poverty and unemployment on a higher scale than ever before?

Answer 28

1962.

Question 29

When were there over 900 demonstrations?

Answer 29

1963.

Question 30

When was the march on Washington?

Answer 30

August 1963.

Question 31

When was the race which the protesters competed in?

Answer 31

October 16th 1968.

Question 32

Which games was Norman not selected for?

Answer 32

1972.

Question 33

When was the SNCC formed?

Answer 33

April 1960.

Question 34

When did a bomb explode on King’s porch?

Answer 34

January 30th.

Question 35

When were the Albany movements?

Answer 35

1961.

Question 36

When was the children’s crusade?

Answer 36

April 1963.

Question 37

When was the attack on a Baptist church?

Answer 37

September 15th 1963.

Question 38

When was JFK assassinated?

Answer 38

22nd November 1963.

Question 39

When did the civil rights act come into law?

Answer 39

July 2nd 1964.

Question 40

When did King receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer 40

December 10th 1964.

Question 41

When was a march from Selma to Montgomery?

Answer 41

7th January 1965.

Question 42

When was the Voting Act implemented?

Answer 42

1965.

Question 43

When did riots occur in Watts?

Answer 43

August 1965.

Question 44

When did King begin his campaign in Chicago?

Answer 44

January 1966.

Question 45

When were there riots in Northern Cities because of unemployment and poor housing?

Answer 45

1967.

Question 46

When did King arrive in Memphis?

Answer 46

3rd April 1968.

Question 47

When was King’s funeral?

Answer 47

8th April 1968.