This was organized following the arrest of Rosa Parks
What is a bus boycott
100
Who did MLK draw on the philosophy and techniques of?
Who is Mahandas Gandhi?
100
The National Guard was deployed by this state's governor to prevent African American students from entering Central High School, an all white school in the state's capitol.
What is Arkansas?
100
Separate-but-equal doctrine was established in this 1896 Supreme Court ruling
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
Southern Democrats who threated to stop further civil rights legislation at the congressional level
Who are the Dixiecrats?
200
This organization successfully integrated many restaurants by using sit-ins.
What is CORE?
200
After his pilgrimage to this Muslim holy city, Malcolm X determined that an integrated society was possible.
What is Mecca (Makkah)?
200
The assassination of MLK took place in this city on April 4, 1968.
Where is Memphis, TN?
200
This congressional act, the first since Reconstruction, was intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
200
Two advocates of the Civil Rights Movement were assassinated in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King and ____.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
300
This organization was founded by student activists.
What is SNCC?
300
The NAACP's chief counsel (tried Brown v. Board of Ed before the US Supreme Court, later becoming the first African-American Supreme Court justice).
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
300
city where brutal violence used against demonstrators led to Dr. King being jailed and prompted JFK to prepare a new civil rights bill.
Where is Birmingham, AL?
300
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did little to guarantee what?
What is the right to vote?
300
Became the main symbol of the black power movement
Who was Malcolm X?
400
When first established this organization set out to end segregation and encourage African-Americans to vote.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
400
The leader of SNCC who believed in black power.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
400
city where, for the first time since the Civil War, a state's armed forces were used to oppose the federal government
Little Rock, AK
400
This legislation sent federal examiners to register qualified voters
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
The city in which there was a successful bus boycott
Montgomery, AL
500
Who organized to draw attention to the South's unwillingness to integrate bus terminals?
Who are the Freedom Riders?
500
The first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi.
What is James Meredith?
500
city where the sit-in at Woolworth's sparked a new mass movement for civil rights
Greensboro, NC
500
This Supreme Court case stated that suspects are entitled to an attorney, regardless of ability to pay
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
500
Brilliant attorney who "orchestrated" the Civil Rights Movement.