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Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin
Which event in 1954 ended the doctrine of "Separate but Equal" in public schools?
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
This movement sought to provide equal opportunities for men and women.
The Women's Rights Movement
Who famously wrote his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in 1963, calling on religious leaders to support racial equality?
Martin Luther King Jr.
This event used economic pressure and media attention to force the Supreme Court to ban segregation on buses.
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)
This movement began in 1969 with the famous Stonewall Riots in NYC.
The Gay Rights Movement
This teenager was brutally murdered in 1955 in Mississippi.
Emmett Till
This event was the first of its kind, featuring four college students who refused to leave an all white lunch counter at a Woolworths Department Store in 1960.
Greensboro Sit-in (1960)
Richard Nixon.
Which female Civil Rights leader was influential in co-founding the SCLC with MLK, and helping to form SNCC in 1960?
Ella Baker
This event in 1963 featured MLK's famous "I Have a Dream Speech" and was attended by over 200,000 marchers.
The March on Washington for Jobs & Equality (1963)
During the American Indian Movement, this famous (former) federal prison was occupied for over a year.
Alcatraz
This NAACP lawyer was famous for working on the Brown v. Board case in 1954, and later became the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
Thurgood Marshall
This event included a famous "Children's Crusade" that combined non-violent protest, civil disobedience, and media pressure to force the integration of "America's Most Segregated City."
The Birmingham Campaign (1963)
The most important achievement of the Disability Rights movement came in 1990, with the passage of this landmark legislation.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)