Civil Rights Leaders
Civil Rights Organizations
Protest Movements
Important People
Legal Action
100
This man is the leader of the SCLC who organized a 250,000 man march on Washington in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This organization used churches to stage protests and demonstrations throughout the South
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
100
This 1964 movement was led by the SNCC to increase Black voter registration
What is Freedom Summer
100
This man signed the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Act as part of his "Great Society"
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
100
This program is aimed at leveling the playing field for employment and college admission.
What is Affirmative Action?
200
This man was the attorney in the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka who argued segregation was NOT separate but equal
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
This organization is a national protest group based on peacefully organizing African American university students
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?
200
This aimed to provoke a violent reaction that would force Kennedy to take legal action
What is Freedom Rides
200
This man was the founder of the Nation of Islam
Who is Elijah Muhammad?
200
This supreme court decision established "separate but equal" as unconstitutional
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
300
This man voiced that pacifism was too weak and violence must be met with violence
Who is Malcolm X?
300
This organization was founded in 1909 to advance racial equality
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
300
Where 250,000 Americans met to demand immediate passage of Civil Rights legislation by Congress
What are Marches On Washington?
300
This woman was jailed for registering to vote in 1962 and became the SNCC's voice at the 1964 DNC
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
300
This piece of legislation ended public segregation in places such as libraries, parks, bathrooms, restaurants, and theaters
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
This man was an organizer for the Black Power movement
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
400
This organization was formed in 1966 to fight police brutality in the Ghetto
Who are the Black Panthers?
400
This had a focus on developing African-American pride by having African Americans "define their own goals and lead their own organizations"
What is Black Power?
400
This man was refused admission to Ol' Miss as an Air Force veteran
Who is James Meredith?
400
This increased the voter registration from 10% of the Black population to 50% of the Black population from 1964-1968
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
500
This man protested against lynchings, discrimination, and Jim Crow laws. He co-founded the NAACP in 1909
Who is WEB Du Bois?
500
This organization promoted Black separation from American society
What is the Nation of Islam?
500
This college refused admission to a US Air Force veteran
What is Ole Miss?
500
This seamstress helped spearhead the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
500
This ended discrimination in the housing market
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
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