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This civil rights leader delivered the powerful “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington, calling for racial equality and an end to segregation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This individual is known for being a prominent civil rights activist and a key figure in the Black Power movement. He was a vocal proponent of Black nationalism, encouraging racial pride and self-defense, and he became a prominent spokesman for the Nation of Isla
Malcolm X
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This civil rights leader delivered the powerful “_______________” speech during the 1963 March on Washington, calling for racial equality and an end to segregation.
Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr, Marsha P Johnson, Fred Hampton, Bobby Seale, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Ella Baker,
In 1960, four Black students sat down at a segregated lunch counter in this North Carolina city, sparking a wave of similar protests across the country.
Greensboro Sit-ins
This group, founded in 1957 by MLK and other leaders, coordinated nonviolent protests like the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Birmingham Campaign.
Souther Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This student-run organization led lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter registration drives in the Deep South.
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
After police raided a gay bar in New York City, members of the LGBTQ+ community fought back in what became a turning point in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. This event was known as _________
Stonewall Riots
a political scandal where President Nixon tried to hide the fact that his team broke into the offices of his rivals. When the truth came out, Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford.
Watergate
In this 1954 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional, overturning decades of segregation.
Brown vs Board of Education
The series of protests, led by organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), utilized nonviolent direct action like sit-ins, marches, and boycotts to target segregated businesses and public facilities
Birmingham Campaign
Sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest on December 1, 1955, this boycott lasted 381 days and ended when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In 1957, a group of Black students enrolled in an all-white high school in Arkansas, facing angry mobs and requiring protection from federal troops.
Little Rock Nine
This revolutionary group was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, and focused on Black self-defense, community programs, and challenging police brutality.
Black Panther Party
Two Black students were killed when police opened fire at this Mississippi college in May 1970, just days after Kent State.
Students were protesting American involvement in Vietnam in addition to unequal Civil Rights.
Jackson State University
A book by Rachel Carson that showed how chemicals used in farming were killing birds and hurting the environment.
Silent Spring
Decided in 1896, this case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal,” laying the groundwork for Jim Crow laws.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
a 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi aimed at increasing Black voter registration and challenging the state's all-white Democratic National Convention delegation
Freedom Summer
In the summer of 1961, interracial groups tested federal desegregation laws by riding Greyhound and Trailways buses through the Deep South. They were violently attacked in places like Anniston, Birmingham, and Montgomery.
Freedom Rides
This 1965 law aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.
This historic event in 1963 featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech and helped push for civil rights legislation.
March on Washington
Title II of this 1964 law outlawed discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations
Civil Rights Act of 1964
In 1968, after a wave of riots in major cities, President Lyndon B. Johnson created the _____________________________________ to figure out why they were happening. The report concluded that racism, poverty, and lack of opportunity were the main causes. Their report warned that the U.S. was dividing into two separate societies—one Black and one white—with unequal treatment and chances. They called for big changes in jobs, housing, and education. But most of their recommendations were ignored.
Kerner Commission
Kerner Report
In this 1963 letter, Martin Luther King Jr. responded to criticism from white clergymen, defending the necessity of direct action and nonviolent protest while emphasizing that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Letter from Birmingham Jail
This civil rights leader and Black Panther Party member was killed in a police raid in Chicago in 1969, sparking outrage over government surveillance and brutality.
Fred Hampton
14-year-old African American who was lynched and brutally beaten in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. Held an open-casket funeral to show the brutality of violence. The accused murderers were acquitted by an all-white jury.
Emmett Till