People
An attorney who argued in the Brown vs Board of education case and the first black supreme court judge
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The year the fair housing act was passed
When is 1968?
What SNCC stands for
What is the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee?
The little rock 9
Nine black students chosen by the NAACP to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High after brown vs board of education passed, were met with backlash and violence from white people in the area, had to be escorted into school by the 101st Airborne under federal order
The amendment the Brown vs Board of Education decision based on
What is the 14th?
Name at least one of the organizations James Foreman was a part of
What is SNCC or the Black Panthers?
The year the selma to montgomery marches were held
When was 1965?
What SCLC stands for
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
What Loving vs Virginia struck down
What were laws banning interracial marriage?
Writer and speaker of "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Who was Malcolm X?
Prominent activist who was later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986 and served 17 terms
Who was John Lewis?
The year the march on washington was held
When was 1963?
The year the NAACP was founded
When was 1909?
Name at least one provision of the Voting Rights Act
Banned literacy tests, no racial discrimination in voting, and prohibited poll taxes in state elections
Helped organize the march on washington, freedom riders, and was gay
Who was Bayard Rustin?
Refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks did
Who was Claudette Colvin?
The year the greensboro sit-ins happened in
When is 1960?
What CORE stands for
What was the Congress of Racial Equality?
What Boynton vs Virginia decided
Ruled that segregation was unconstitutional for passengers engaged in interstate travel
The scotus decision split on Brown vs Board of Education
What is a 9-0 majority?
Executive Secretary for SCLC, organizer of the founding conference of SNCC, and a key activist in the civil rights movement
Who was Ella Baker?
Plessy vs Ferguson, establishing the precedent of "seperate but equal", was decided in this year
When was 1896?
Leader of the Black Panthers
Who is Huey Newton?
Name at least 3 of the "Big Six" who organized the march on washington
Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and/or Dorothy Height
Estimating within 30 days, this is how long the montgomery bus boycott lasted
How long is 381 days?