Civil Rights Acts
This Supreme Court case in 1896 established the doctrine of "separate but equal", which provided the legal framework for segregation for half a century.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
The primary strategy advocated by Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience (or Nonviolence
A famous Civil Rights worker who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963.
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This person was shot from his hotel balcony.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Freed all slaves in Confederate controlled areas.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
It outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national, and religious minorities.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The political organisation, founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in 1966
Black Panther Party
She refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, sparking the bus boycott
Rosa Parks
An Islamic Civil Rights activist who wanted equality "by any means necessary".
Who is Malcolm X?
Made slavery illegal throughout the US.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
It aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from voting.
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965?
CORE is an acronym for this organization.
What is Congress of Racial Equality?
Favored economic independence and social independence for the black community. He was shot by three members of the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
What were the Freedom Rides
A series of protests in 1961 where integrated groups traveled on interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States to test enforcement of federal desegregation rulings.
This was the meaning of the two V's in the "Double V" Campaign championed by African-American newspapers during World War II.
What are Victory over Fascism Abroad and Victory over Racism/Segregation at Home?
The 1954 Supreme Court decision that unanimously ruled state-sponsored segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka)
SCLC is an acronym for this organization.
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
This President successfully used his political influence to pass both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
What are the Selma to Montgomery Marches
The 1965 protest that involved three marches for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, including the brutal attack known as "Bloody Sunday".
All people born or naturalized in the US are Citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
What is Fair Housing Act of 1968?
An organization formed in Raleigh, North Carolina to organize peaceful Civil Rights demonstrations known as SNCC.
What is Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
After Malcolm X's assassination, this man led the Black Panthers towards causes such as policing the police and equal rights for the disabled.
Who is Stokley Carmichael?
What was Freedom Summer?
The 1964 effort to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi, which saw volunteers face extreme violence and three civil rights workers murdered.
A famous 1963 document authored by Martin Luther King Jr. while imprisoned, arguing that civil rights activists have a moral duty to break unjust laws.
What is the Letter from Birmingham Jail