Important Figures
Non-violent Protests
Pivotal Moments
Politicians who helped/hindered Movement
The Constitution
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Civil Rights leader who began the non-violent movement in the 1950's and 60's. He was a minister and head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who was MLK, Jr.?
100
When 250,000 marchers gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to pressure Congress and the President to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964
1963 March on Washington
100
This trial received a lot of media attention after an all white jury acquitted the two white men arrested of murdering a boy.
What was the trial of Emmett Till 1955?
100
This President freed the slaves during the Civil War.
Why was/is Abe Lincoln important to black Americans?
100
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment 1865?
200
Civil Rights leader who wanted to achieve equality "by any means necessary." He was a member of the Nation of Islam and disagreed with MLK's non-violent protests.
Who was Malcolm X?
200
John Lewis and Diane Nash played an important role in these protests, which sought to desegregate lunch counters.
What were the 1960 Nashville Sit-ins?
200
This Supreme Court Case ordered lower federal courts to enforce desegregation in public schools.
What was Brown V. Board of Education 1954?
200
This President sent it federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine to school after Governor Faubus of Arkansas refused to help.
Who was President Eisenhower (IKE)?
200
This Amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the US.
What is the 14th Amendment 1868?
300
The President who spoke on national television after the Children's March in Birmingham and said that he was sickened by what he saw. He said that fighting racism was a "moral cause."
Who was JFK?
300
This non-violent protest challenged segregation on interstate buses. It included black and white activists from CORE and SNCC.
What were the 1961 Freedom Rides?
300
This Supreme Court Case declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment, arguing that the Amendment protected citizens from the government, but not from private business owners.
What were the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?
300
This Governor refused to let a black college student (James Meredith) enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Who was Ross Barnett?
300
This Amendment gave citizens the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment 1870?
400
The Civil Rights leader who participated in the Nashville sit-ins and Freedom Rides. He also walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to protest voting rights for black Americans.
Who is John Lewis?
400
This important protest caused the integration of the buses in Montgomery, Alabama during 1955-57.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
This Supreme Court case challenged the Louisiana Separate Car Act. The majority decision introduced the doctrine "separate but equal."
What was Plessy V. Ferguson?
400
This President died before seeing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 pass?
Who was JFK?
400
This law passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes and made it easier to vote.
What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
The lone dissenter in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 and Plessy v. Ferguson 1896.
Who is John Harlan?
500
The name given to the day when violence broke out on the Edmund Pettus Bridge between marchers and Alabama state troopers?
What was Bloody Sunday?
500
Martin Luther King, jr. was arrested and wrote this letter from jail, which argued that individuals have a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.
What was Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
500
One of the big six and the head of the March on Washington? He convinced John Lewis to change his speech at the last minute because, "I have worked his whole life for this moment?"
Who was A. Philip Randolph?
500
Under the 14th Amendment, what clause prohibits the government from denying any person who is a citizen equal protection under the law
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
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