Coordinated the actions of local protest groups in the south.
What is the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)?
100
Refused to give up a seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, beginning the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Coordinated by the Montgomery Improvement Association , 90% of Montgomery's black citizens stayed off buses starting December 5th.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
100
Ended the unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace, and by facilities that served the general public.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100
April 4, 1968
What is the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated?
200
Created in Shaw University in Raleigh, it coordinated sit-ins, supported their leaders, and publicized their activities.
What is the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
200
President of the MIA and later the leader of the Civil Rights Movement who received the Nobel Prize for Peace at the age of 35.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
A group of students would go to a lunch counter and asked to be served, if they weren't, they would not move until they had been. They remained nonviolent and respectful the whole time.
What is a "sit-in"?
200
Prohibits congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
200
Boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides
What are common civil rights workers' methods?
300
Concluded the economic and social inequality was a primary factor of the race riots, and an indication of the overall division of society and the failure of the federal and state governments to address these issues.
What is the Kerner Commission?
300
African American Muslim who was very influential in the civil rights movement. His methods were accused of being racist, black supremacist, and violent.
Who is Malcolm X?
300
A tactic aimed at testing the Supreme Court's ruling that segregation in interstate bus and rail stations was unconstitutional.
What are Freedom Rides?
300
Enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, it was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction following the American Civil War.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
300
University of Georgia
What is the first university to allow black students enroll?
400
African American revolutionary socialist organization
What is the Black Panthers?
400
Applied to the University of Mississippi and was accepted then declined when they discovered he was black. Went all the way to Supreme Court with a law suit that was ruled in his favor.
Who is James Meredith?
400
Coalition of 6 civil rights organization demanding passage of meaningful civil rights legislation.
What is the March on Washington?
400
States no person can be denied the right to vote because of race or color. It also abolished literacy tests and poll taxes.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
James Earl Ray
Who shot Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
The primary focus was/is the protection and enhancement of the civil rights of African Americans and other minorities.
What is the NAACP?
500
Attended Central High School in Little Rock, Kansas in an attempt to integrate public schools.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
500
A march that spanned 54 miles and lasted 5 days. Purpose was to campaign for voting rights.
What is the March on Selma?
500
Court case that declared racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
The Black Panthers were founded due to the militant passion of this man.