Civil Rights
Famous People and Quotes
Organizations
Misc 1
Misc 2
100
Refusal to use
What is boycott
100
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed..."
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
Organization that worked to end segregation and to improve the civil rights of African Americans
What is the NAACP (National Advancement of Colored People)?
100
activist for women's rights
What is a feminist?
100
Leader assassinated on April 4, 1968
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
an act of protest that causes you to remain seated
What is a sit-in?
200
"Ask not what your country can do for you--but ask what you can do for your country."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
Organization that worked for equal rights of Native Americans and occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Who is AIM (American Indian Movement)?
200
minimum income needed to live
What is poverty line?
200
Leader who was assassinated on November 22, 1963
Who is John F. Kennedy?
300
Bringing races together
What is integrating?
300
Declared an unconditional war on poverty
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
Organization that fought for equal rights for women in all aspects of life
What is NOW (National Organization for Women)?
300
First female justice of the Supreme Court
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
300
Leader of the Black Muslims
Who is Malcolm X?
400
Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust
What is civil disobedience?
400
NAACP lawyer who challenged the idea of "separate but equal"
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
Helped fund public housing projects
What is HUD (Housing and Urban Development)?
400

Feminist author who wrote The Feminine Mystique

Who is Betty Friedan?
400
Campaign in 1964 to register voters in the South
What is Freedom Summer?
500
First African American to attend the University of Mississippi
Who is James Meredith?
500
Organized Hispanic farm workers into the UFW
Who is Cesar Chavez?
500
Fought for better conditions for migrant workers
What is the UFW (United Farm Workers)?
500
Site of first of a series of racial riots that hit cities in 1965
What is Watts in Los Angeles?
500
Act banned discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public places
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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