Who led a boycott when refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Rosa Parks
100
What does "SNCC" stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
100
MLK made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during this event
March on Washington
100
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
Brown vs. Board of Education
100
This law was passed during Eisenhower's presidency but was ineffective at ending segregation and discrimination in the South
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
200
This man was the president who had to send federal marshals to Mississippi so that James Meredith could attend classes at Ole Miss
John F. Kennedy
200
What does "CORE" stand for?
Congress of Racial Equality
200
This event began in December of 1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott
200
Boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides were all examples of this type of political act
civil disobedience or direct action
200
She was one of the students who first integrated Little Rock High School
Elizabeth Eckford
300
This president signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon Johnson
300
Martin Luther King was the president of this organization
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
300
Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
the Selma to Montgomery Marches
300
What did the 24th Amendment outlaw?
Poll taxes
300
Martin Luther King Jr. encourages this among his followers at the start of the civil rights movement
nonviolence
400
This president sent in federal troops to Arkansas to enforce integration
Dwight Eisenhower
400
This group is the oldest major civil rights organization
The NAACP
400
African Americans and whites together rode various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation
Freedom Rides
400
This was the name of a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters
Freedom Summer
400
He was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era
Jackie Robinson
500
This man was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during much of the Civil Rights movement
Earl Warren
500
This group was made up of militant black nationalists and called for economic and political freedom for African Americans
The Black Panthers
500
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
500
What two leaders were shot and killed in 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
500
This city was a hotbed of racial violence in the early 1960s and was a major target of a campaign during the Civil Rights movement