Grades 11–12 · American history
This quiz helps revise “The Civil Rights Movement” in American history for grades 11–12. It has 25 questions in five categories: In the Courts, Direct Action, Movement Voices, Landmark Laws, Black Power. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
Who served as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and became the first Black Supreme Court justice in 1967?
Which group of students…
In the gameWhich 1896 Supreme Court…
In the gameWhich 1967 Supreme Court…
In the gameWhat 381-day Alabama protest against municipal transit segregation began in 1955 after Rosa Parks was arrested?
In 1960, four Black college students in North Carolina staged what form of peaceful protest at a Woolworth lunch counter?
In 1961, activists traveled…
In the gameIn May 1963, thousands…
In the gameWhich 1964 Mississippi voter…
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Which Baptist minister led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and delivered the 'I Have a Dream' speech?
Which young activist helped lead the 1965 Selma march and represented Georgia in Congress for over thirty years?
Which Mississippi organizer co-founded…
In the gameWhich veteran organizer mentored…
In the gameWhich Mississippi NAACP field…
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Which landmark 1964 federal law banned racial discrimination in public accommodations and outlawed employment bias?
Which landmark 1965 law banned literacy tests and authorized federal examiners to oversee voter registration?
Which constitutional amendment ratified…
In the gameWhich 1968 federal law…
In the gameWhich 1948 executive order…
In the gameWhich Nation of Islam minister and orator advocated Black nationalism and self-defense 'by any means necessary'?
Which organization was founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to monitor police brutality?
Which activist popularized the…
In the gameWhich 1969 community initiative…
In the gameWhich 1968 federal commission…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.