The Legal Battle
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to this city to protect nine Black students.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
This city’s bus boycott in 1955 proved the power of nonviolent economic protest.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
This 1964 law prohibited discrimination in public places and workplaces based on race, religion, and gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Dr. King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during this massive 1963 event.
What is the March on Washington?
This 1954 unanimous decision struck down segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
These activists rode buses through the South in 1961 to test the ban on segregated travel.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Dr. King’s brand of nonviolent resistance was known by this two-word term.
What is "Soul Force"?
$200: This 1965 law abolished literacy tests and tripled Black voter enrollment in the South.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Dr. King wrote this famous letter from behind bars, stating that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
This 1955 follow-up ruling ordered school desegregation to proceed with "all deliberate speed."
What is Brown II?
This man was the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1962.
Who is James Meredith?
This student-led organization (SNCC) was formed in 1960 to give younger activists a voice.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
This President signed both the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)?
The TV news showed police in this city using high-pressure fire hoses and attack dogs on children.
What is Birmingham?
This NAACP lawyer won 29 out of 32 cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
$400: This Alabama Governor famously stood in the doorway to block integration at the University of Alabama.
Who is George Wallace?
In 1960, Black students in this North Carolina city sat at a Woolworth’s lunch counter until served.
What is Greensboro?
$400: Images of police attacking marchers in this Alabama city during "Bloody Sunday" led to the Voting Rights Act.
What is Selma?
This organization was founded by Dr. King and other ministers in 1957 to use nonviolent protest.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
The 24th Amendment was ratified to make this financial barrier to voting unconstitutional.
What is the Poll Tax?
This 1964 project brought white college students to Mississippi to register Black voters.
What is Freedom Summer?
This woman was the voice of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 National Convention.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This 1957 law was the first civil rights legislation passed since Reconstruction, focusing on voting.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
This NAACP field secretary was murdered in Mississippi just hours after JFK’s 1963 civil rights speech.
Who is Medgar Evers?