She refused to give up her seat in the front on a Montgomery city bus.
Rosa Parks
100
This act passed by Congress eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters. It also stated that federal examiners could enroll voters who had been denied suffrage by local officials.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
100
This political party fought police brutality in the ghetto.
Black Panthers
100
Court case where the father of 8 year old Linda Brown had charged the board of education of Topeka, Kansas, with violating Linda's rights by denying her admission to an all white elementary school four blocks from her house.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
100
Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil Rights Era?
John F. Kennedy
200
He stood up for equality between blacks and whites and said the famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
This act prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. It gave all citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, washrooms, restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
200
This is a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the United States.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 people gathered at the Washington Monument for this event.
March on Washington
200
This provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American age 65 or older.
Medicare
300
Air-Force veteran who won a federal court case that allowed him to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962.
James Meredith
300
Which act opened the door for many non-European immigrants to settle in the United States by ending quotas based on nationality?
Immigration Act of 1965
300
This national protest group's goal was to create one of the most important student activist movements in the nation's history.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
300
During the Summer of 1964, hundreds of Northern college traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
Freedom Summer
300
This extended health insurance to welfare recipients.
Medicaid
400
He was a lawyer who worked on the Brown v. Board Education of Topeka.
Thurgood Marshall
400
Which Act created the Job Corps Youth Training Program, VISTA, Project Head Start, and the Community Action Progam?
Economic Opportunity Act
400
This conference's purpose was "to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship."
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
400
This event killed four African American girls by a bomb planted in a church.