Famous Civil Rights Movement leader who gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
100
This is the title that many gave the JFK administration because of his desire to correct the wrongs in U.S. society.
What is Camelot?
100
The name the Johnson gave his domestic policy.
What is the Great Society?
100
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
100
This court case ended legal segregation in schools and public facilities.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
This person refused to give up their seat to a white man and her arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
This person was charged with the assassination of JFK.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
200
This is the name of the group that Johnson put together to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
What is the Warren Commission?
200
This word means the separation of racial groups in daily lives. It was commonly practiced in the South and could include bathrooms, water fountains, etc.
What is segregation?
200
This group was a part of the Black Power movement. They wanted the government to help rebuild the ghettos in the North.
Who are the Black Panthers?
300
This African American was the lead attorney for the NAACP and was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This was the name of JFK's domestic program that included reforms in education, welfare, and the space program.
What is the New Frontier?
300
Johnson is the President responsible for increasing the number of troops from 16,000 to 550,000 in this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This court case upheld segregation and claimed that "separate but equal" was constitutional.
What is Plessey vs. Ferguson?
300
Launched in June 1964, African Americans attempted to register as many voters as possible in Mississippi.
What is Freedom Summers?
400
Co-founder of the NAACP and who is well known for his speeches and writings.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
400
This celebrity sang Happy Birthday to JFK at his Madison Square Garden party prior to his 45th birthday.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
400
These programs gave the poor a voice in defining housing, health, and education policies in their neighborhood.
What is community action programs?
400
States implemented this to make whites eligible to vote even if they didn't meet the voter restrictions including the poll tax or literacy test.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
400
These took place during the Summer of 1961 and were met with extreme violence, including one where their bus was burned.
What are Freedom Rides?
500
Renowned author whose writing inspired the Black Power Movement.
Who is James Baldwin?
500
This program was launched by JFK in 1961. By 1962 it was aiding over 240,000 people.
What is the food stamp program?
500
This legislative peace established programs including Medicare, medicade, work study, and head start. Many of these still exist today.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
500
The murder of this boy was the spark to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
500
These students earned this name after they were the first African American students to enter this high school. It was the first case where the U.S. used military to uphold African American's civil rights.