This African American teenager was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white girl.
What is Emmett Till
100
abolished slavery except as punishment for crime
What is 13th amendment
100
a series of nonviolent protests in North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What is The Greensboro sit-ins
100
A group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement. Who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation.
What is Freedom Riders
100
abolished poll taxes in elections for federal officials.
What is 24th amendment
200
The first Black man in the MLB
What is Jackie Robinson
200
granted black men the right to vote
What is 15th amendment
200
a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system.
What is The Montgomery Bus Boycott
200
working with other civil rights groups, launched a series of initiatives: the Freedom Rides, aimed at desegregating public facilities, the Freedom Summer voter registration project and the historic 1963 March on Washington.
What is CORE
200
the first african american supreme court justice
What is Thurgood Marshall
300
a civil rights activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 'who pushed for nonviolent protest to end segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr.'
What is James Farmer
300
Supreme court case in 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing racial segregation.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
300
political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
What is March on Washington
300
the oldest and largest Civil Rights organization in the United States. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, with a staff of more than 220 persons
What is NAACP
300
a member of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights.
What is the black panther party
400
an American Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran.
What is James Meredith
400
prohibits descrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1864
400
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama.
What is The selma March
400
American political organization that played a central role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. (students)
What is SNCC
400
pushed integration into schools
What is little rock 9
500
refused to get off up out of her seat in the white section in the bus.
What is Rosa Parks
500
(1954) said separate black and white schools to be unconstitutional
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
500
a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, May 2–5, 1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement.
What is Childrens March
500
an organization closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
What is SCLC
500
state gov practices of administering tests tests to prospective voters in order to vote