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This woman was arrested for refusing to move seats on an Alabama bus.
Who is...Rosa Parks?
At this event, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech.
What is...the March on Washington?
This Supreme Court ruling declared that separate facilities were inherently "unequal".
What is...Brown v. Board of Education?
What is...in openly rebelling states/southern states?
This abolitionist wrote The Liberator.
Who is...William Lloyd Garrison?
This Civil Rights leader famously said: Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
Who is...Martin Luther King, Jr?
This event began as a response to segregation on public transportation and the public arrest of Rosa Parks.
What is...the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Students staged this kind of protest at lunch counters in the South to fight segregation.
What are...Sit-Ins?
This 1896 court ruling created the precedent for 'separate but equal'.
What is...Plessy v. Ferguson?
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union established this alliance.
What is...the Warsaw Pact?
This Civil Rights leader threatened to March on Washington in order to get FDR to end job discrimination.
Who is...A Phillip Randolph?
This 1964 event saw the murder of three voter volunteers.
What is...Freedom Summer?
Despite the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, these students were still refused access to their school in Arkansas and proved that government enforcement was a problem.
Who were...the Little Rock Nine?
This compromise established Missouri as a slave state and created Maine as a free state to maintain the balance of representation.
What is...the Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820?
The 18th Amendment established this.
What is...Prohibition?
This Civil Rights leader believed that being peaceful had not accomplished anything for Civil Rights.
Who is...Malcolm X?
This event convinced President Johnson to push for a new federal voting law.
What is...the March in Selma?
These people would travel all over the south to ensure that integration laws were being enforced on public transportation.
Who are...Freedom Riders?
This period in history marked a significant change in African American culture by creating a new wave of art, music, and feeling.
What is...the Harlem Renaissance?
Marbury v. Madison established this precedent.
What is...Judicial Review?
This man committed to a Civil Rights act after witnessing brutality in Birmingham with his wife.
Who is...John F. Kennedy?
This young man's murder spread the image of violence and brutality in Southern states after his mother chose to commence with an open casket funeral.
Who is...Emmett Till?
This act sent federal voting officials to protect Black voters.
What is...the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This campaign during WWII fought for victory abroad and at home.
What is...the Double V campaign?
American Imperialists cited this to justify intervention in Latin America.
What is...the Monroe Doctrine?