Many Rivers to Cross
How old was Rudy Bridges when she was the first black child to go to an all-white school?
Six
The “separate-but-equal” clause of segregation from Plessy v. Ferguson is overturned in this monumental Supreme Court Case.
Brown vs Board of Education
Police using firehouses and dogs to disperse peaceful protesters was shown nationwide using this media type. Credited as a major reason the Civil Rights Movement gained large support.
Television
Regarded as one of the greatest orators of modern human history, this Civil Rights Leader is recognized for his speeches including "I've been to the Mountaintop", "Our God is Marching On", and "I have a Dream".
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Move."
-James F. Blake
"__."
-Rosa Parks
No
Nashville, TN was the first U.S. city to desegregate lunch counters after this type of practiced peaceful protest.
Sit-Ins
African Americans boycotted this daily necessity (for most) for almost an entire year in order to pressure an Alabama city to desegregate the commodity.
Buses
In May of 1965 protesters took to the streets in this Alabama city to show opposition to segregation and were met with firehouses and police dogs.
Birmingham
The Black Panther Leader who was critical of MLK Jr. and the non-violent approach.
Malcolm X
"I ____ _ _____ that my four children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
-MLK Jr.
Have a Dream
Bloody Sunday, the march for voter registration equality that was confronted by deadly violence at the end of a bridge occurred in this Alabama city. The event raised support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Selma
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in this Alabama city.
Montgomery
The March on Washington and Birmingham Protests were intended to persuade which presidential administration to pass Civil Rights legislation?
The Kennedy Administration
Referred to as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" this Civil Rights Leader is famously holding the number 7053 in her arrest photo.
Rosa Parks
"We shall ________!"
-Civil Rights Movement motto
Overcome
This U.S. President echoed the Civil Rights Movement motto, "We shall overcome" after the events of Bloody Sunday.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Residents from this Kansas town challenged the "separate-but equal" clause of segregation.
Topeka
Martin Luther King Jr. was the last of eleven key Civil Rights leaders to give remarks at the March on Washington in front of this national monument.
The Lincoln Memorial
Ella Baker was a mentor to many of the Civil Rights leaders including MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, Diane Nash and this former Justice of the Supreme Court who was the lawyer that argued in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Thurgood Marshall
"Nobody's ____ until everybody's ____."
-Fannie Lou Hammer
Free, Free
This successful Detroit black record company sold speeches by MLK Jr. and Malcolm X.
Motown
An all-white jury found the two white men accused of lynching this African American not guilty. The verdict sparked the NAACP to hold peaceful demonstrations nationwide of how unjust this decision was. What is the name of this African American?
Emmett Till
Martin Luther King Jr. ended his I Have a Dream speech with these lyrics to "an old African spiritual". An anthem that every man and women regardless of skin color, religion, or other differences can sing when freedom rings.
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
This U.S. House of Representative recently passed away in July of 2020. One of the 13 original Freedom Riders, a former Chairman of SNCC, and is credited with organizing the Nashville Sit-Ins. He was in front leading the March in Selma that turned into what is now called Bloody Sunday.
John Lewis
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the ____ of America.”
-John Lewis
Soul