Where?
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in this city.
What is Washington?
the 4th United States President to be assassinated
Who is John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
NOW
What is the National Organization for Women?
a demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave
What is a sit-in?
the most popular American professional sport of the 1950s
What is baseball?
President John Kennedy was assassinated in this city.
What is Dallas?
This African-American attorney, who later became a Supreme Court justice, helped win the case Brown v. The Board of Education.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
DIA
Who are Disabled in Action?
black and white bus riders from the North traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South in hopes for a change in laws
What were Freedom Rides?
She was the first African-American woman elected to Congress.
Who was Shirley Chisholm?
Nine black students at Central High School in this Arkansas city were the first to attend the previously all-white school, escorted by National Guard troops.
What is Little Rock?
This civil rights leader believed in violence, if necessary, to achieve rights, and he was a founder of Black Power.
Who was Malcolm X?
ERA (not the baseball term...)
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
This union was committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farm workers.
Who were the United Farm Workers?
President Johnson signed this bill into law, banning segregation in public places and discrimination in the workplace. (Include the year.)
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This southern city had many boycott public buses until laws changed about blacks having to give up their seats to white riders.
What is Montgomery?
She inspired a bus boycott that lasted over a year when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger.
Who was Rosa Parks?
AIM
What is the American Indian Movement?
a massive demonstration in front of the Lincoln Memorial to work for civil rights
What was the March on Washington?
the Supreme Court case from 1896 which allowed segregation in schools, using a "separate but equal" concept
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Linda Carole Brown's family and others won a victory in the Supreme Court on school desegregation. She lived in this Midwestern city. (Hint: Think of the Court Case.)
What is Topeka?
He was charged with the assassination of President Kennedy, but was murdered before being brought to trial.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
NAACP
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
President Lyndon Johnson's program of domestic reforms
What was the Great Society?
Finish this quote by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...
"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their ___________."
What is character?