This board helps players review Civil Rights Movement through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Legal Landmarks, Key Leaders, Major Protests, Civil Rights Orgs, Tactics and Terms. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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Which Supreme Court case ended legal school segregation in 1954?
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Who refused to give up her seat in Montgomery in 1955?
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Rosa Parks
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What year-long action began after Rosa Parks’ arrest in Alabama?
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Which 1909 group fought segregation through the courts, including Brown?
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NAACP
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What term described state and local laws enforcing segregation?
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Jim Crow laws
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Legal Landmarks
- $100 — Which Supreme Court case ended legal school segregation in 1954?
- Brown v. Board of Education
- $200 — What 1896 case established the “separate but equal” doctrine?
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- $300 — Which law banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment?
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- $400 — Which law outlawed literacy tests and enabled federal oversight of elections?
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- $500 — Which 1967 Supreme Court case struck down bans on interracial marriage?
- Loving v. Virginia
Key Leaders
- $100 — Who refused to give up her seat in Montgomery in 1955?
- Rosa Parks
- $200 — Who led the SCLC and delivered “I Have a Dream”?
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- $300 — Who was the NAACP lawyer in Brown and later a Supreme Court justice?
- Thurgood Marshall
- $400 — Which Nation of Islam figure later advocated Black self-determination?
- Malcolm X
- $500 — Which organizer helped found SNCC and promoted group-centered leadership?
- Ella Baker
Major Protests
- $100 — What year-long action began after Rosa Parks’ arrest in Alabama?
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- $200 — What 1961 campaigns tested desegregation of interstate buses?
- Freedom Rides
- $300 — In which city did students launch Woolworth’s sit-ins in 1960?
- Greensboro, North Carolina
- $400 — Where did ‘Bloody Sunday’ occur on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965?
- Selma, Alabama
- $500 — What 1963 effort used mass marches and a Children’s Crusade against Bull Connor?
- Birmingham campaign
Civil Rights Orgs
- $100 — Which 1909 group fought segregation through the courts, including Brown?
- NAACP
- $200 — Which ministers’ group led nonviolent protests under King’s leadership?
- SCLC
- $300 — Which student-led group organized sit-ins and Freedom Summer?
- SNCC
- $400 — Which interracial group helped organize the Freedom Rides?
- CORE
- $500 — Which Oakland-based group promoted Black self-defense and community programs?
- Black Panther Party
Tactics and Terms
- $100 — What term described state and local laws enforcing segregation?
- Jim Crow laws
- $200 — What strategy involves peaceful refusal to obey unjust laws?
- Civil disobedience
- $300 — What voting barrier was banned by the 24th Amendment?
- Poll tax
- $400 — What were exams used to deny voting rights under Jim Crow?
- Literacy tests
- $500 — What terms contrast legal segregation with segregation by custom?
- De jure and de facto
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