Black History

Front 1

What constitutional amendment ratified in 1868 guaranteed equal protection under the law.

Back 1

14 th Amendment

Front 2

What constitutional amendment, ratified in 1868, guaranteed equal protection the law for all people?

Back 2

The Fourteenth Amendment

Front 3

What court case established the "seperated but equal" doctrine in 1896, laying groundwork for Jim Crow laws all over the South?

Back 3

Plessy V. Ferguson

Front 4

What religious denomination was founded by blacks who objected to sitting in a seperate gallery during church services?

Back 4

African Methodist Episocal

Front 5

Where was the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter, staged by four black students in 1960?

Back 5

At a Woolworths in Greensboro

Front 6

What events prompted the National Advisory Commission on CivilDisorders(populaly, the Kerner Commission) to warn in 1968, "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-seperate and unequal"?

Back 6

More than 100 inner city riots in the summer of 1967

Front 7

In 1786 what group helped fugitive slaves from Virginia reach freedom?

Back 7

Philadephia Quakers

Front 8

in what year did Britain and the united States abolish the slave trade?

Back 8

January 1808