Jim Crow laws Quiz - 41 Trivia Questions!
Examine the dark history of racial segregation in the United States with this quiz on the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial discrimination and inequality for decades.
In 1890, which US state passed a law requiring separate accommodations for black and white passengers on railroads?
Who was the first US President born in the South after the Civil War?
In which US state is the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia?
Which American cartoonist created the 'Jim Crow' caricature in 1904?
What was the name of the US Supreme Court case that declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional?
In which US state did a campaign for racial purity take place between 1922 and 1930?
Which US congressman proposed the introduction of 'Jim Crow' streetcars in Washington DC in 1908?
Which US President issued Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the armed forces?
Who was the first black person to play in Major League Baseball?
What was the name of the US Supreme Court case that upheld desegregation busing in 1971?
In which US state did segregated water fountains and restrooms become legal in the 1920's?
In 1954, the US Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in what landmark case?
In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional, in what landmark case?
Who was the governor of Alabama at the time of the civil rights movement?
What was the name of the Supreme Court case that upheld Jim Crow laws in the U.S.A.?
Which was the first state in the USA to disenfranchise most black people?
In which US state would you find a 'coloured' drinking fountain?
In 1913, US President Woodrow Wilson presided over the 'Peace Jubilee' at which battlefield?
In 2013, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional in which US county?
In which US city did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955?
Who was the lawyer for the NAACP in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
What was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People better known as?
Which amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery?
Who is the author of 'Learning to Win: Sports, Education and Social Change in twentieth-century North Carolina'?
Who was the first US Supreme Court Justice to use the word 'racism'?
In the Jim Crow South, what field did blacks work in?
In which US city did Bull Connor use billy clubs and water hoses to disperse civil rights protesters?
What was the name of the legendary sports spectacle that was never televised?
What was the name of the white supremacist paramilitary group in the US South during the Reconstruction Era?
Which US law was passed in 1875 by Charles Sumner and Benjamin F Butler?
"Who wrote ""Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow""?"
In which US state was the 'Eight Box Law' passed in 1892?
"What sport was ""integrated"" by Jim Crow?"
What name was given to the laws that enforced racial segregation in the US?
What was abolished in the US South after the Civil War?
What was the name given to the post-Civil War era in the US when blacks were given the vote and public schools were established?
Which US President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Which US university was known as Dixie until it was desegregated in 1972?
"What was the ""Jim Crow"" law meant to enforce?"
"""There are only white champions in Texas"", was a slogan for what sport?"
What was the name of the decade in the 20th century when college football was slouching to a new expediency?