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100
This civil rights icon was shot and murdered at the age of 39.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
Nine black students were blocked from coming into Central High School in this city. President Eisenhower called in the National Guard to intervene.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
100
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot at the age of Thirty-Nine on this day.
What is April 4, 1968?
100
Escaped convict and racist James Earl Ray was convicted of this crime.
What is the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This is the nickname given to nine students who were blocked from entering Central High School.
What is The Little Rock Nine?
200
This fourteen year old boy was brutally beaten, shot and thrown in the Tallahatchie River after whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
200
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus in this city.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
200
The SNCC is founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement at this time.
What is April, 1960?
200
This event took place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963 and involved a 37 year old NAACP secretary.
What is the murder of Medgar Evers?
200
The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas resulted in a victory for this current NAACP attorney who later returned to the Supreme Court as the nation's first black justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This NAACP member was arrested, tried and convicted after refusing her bus seat to a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
Four black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter.
What is Greensboro, North Carolina?
300
On this day, the Loving v. Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. Sixteen states that still banned interracial marriage are forced to revise their laws.
What is June 12, 1967?
300
Poll taxes are abolished on January 23, 1964, making it easier for poor minorities to vote in the South.
What is the 24th amendment?
300
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What does SCLC stand for?
400
He is the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
400
This black nationalist and founder of the organization of Afro-American Unity, Malcom X is shot to death in this city
What is Harlem, New York?
400
On this day congress passes the Voting Rights Act of _____ making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote.
What is August 10, 1965?
400
This act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
This militant organization was founded by Heuy Newton and Bobby Seale.
Who are the Black Panthers?
500
He was tried twice in 1964 for the murder of Medgar Evers. Both trials resulted in hung juries. Thirty years later he is convicted for Evers' murder.
Who is Byron De La Beckwith?
500
On August 28, 1963 about 200,000 people joined the march on Washington. At this march Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech. These 200,000 people congregated here.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
500
Busses are completely desegregated on this day.
What is December 21, 1956?
500
This order states that, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the president that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin."
What is the Executive Order 9981?
500
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted this long, until buses are completely desegregated.
What is 382 days?
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