This 1896 Supreme Court Decision ruled that "separate but equal" was legal.
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
100
The lynching of this 14 year old boy in 1955 in Mississippi sparked the mainstream Civil Rights movement.
Emmett Till
100
This man defeated Richard Nixon in 1960 to replace Dwight D. Eishenhower as president.
Who is John F. Kennedy
100
This man became president after John. F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
Lyndon B. Johnson
100
This group was organized in Oakland, California in 1967 to respond to police brutality and white violence. It's symbol was also used for the first black Marvel superhero comic book.
Black Panthers
200
W.E.B. Dubois founded this Civil Rights organization in 1909. It focuses on using education and law to advance civil rights.
NAACP
200
This lady sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus.
Rosa Parks
200
This was the name of John F. Kennedy's plan for the future. It included going to space, ending poverty, and creating the Peace Corps.
The New Frontier
200
This was the Civil Rights event that took place in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 when civil rights workers helped register African Americans to vote. Three civil rights workers were killed in Philadelphia, MS.
Freedom Summer
200
Stokely Carmichael coined this phrase as he abandoned Dr. MLK's movement and began to support black separatism.
Black Power
300
This Supreme Court Case over turned Plessy v. Ferguson and said that "separate but equal" was NOT constitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
300
This man is often considered the father of the Civil Rights Movement and organized important events like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and the Selma campaign.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
300
This civil rights event took place in the early 1960's when black and white civil rights activists rode buses from the North to the South to end segregation on buses and in bus stations. They were met with violence.
Freedom Rides
300
Name one of the three important laws that Johnson passed for Civil Rights while he as president
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th amendment
300
This man began his Civil Rights career as a member of the Nation of Islam, but eventually rejected violence and embraced non-violence. He was later assassinated by a member of the Nation of Islam.
Malcolm X.
400
Central High School in this state capital was integrated when Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort nine African American students to school day in and day out.
Little Rock
400
What method did Dr. MLK and his followers use to fight for Civil Rights?
James Meredith became a well known Civil Rights leader when he attended this college even thought the governor or Mississippi, Ross Barnett, did not want him to.
Ole Miss
400
This Civil Rights leader was assassinated in Jackson, MS in June of 1963 by Bryan de la Beckwith.
Medgar Evers
400
This Latino Civil Rights leader fought for Latino worker's civil rights by boycotting in California.
Cesar Chavez.
500
This president desegregated the military (It is not Eisenhower)
Truman
500
Which US presidents helped the Little Rock Nine attend school in Arkansas, passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1957, and the Interstate Highway Act?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
500
This was the name of the man who assassinated John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald
500
The Civil Rights became broken when this leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.