Leaders and activits
Who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What 1963 event featured MLK’s famous speech and gathered over 250,000 people?
March on Washington
What 1954 case ruled that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What law outlawed segregation in public places in 1964?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
What city did the 1955 bus boycott take place in?
Montgomery, Alabama
What case upheld “separate but equal” before being overturned?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What youth-led group used nonviolence and organized sit-ins?
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
What law removed barriers like literacy tests from voting?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who was a leader of the Nation of Islam and later became a civil rights leader before being assassinated in 1965?
Malcolm X
What 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery was met with violence on “Bloody Sunday”?
Selma March
Who was the lawyer for the Brown family and later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
What organization did MLK help lead?
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
What amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
Who founded the United Farm Workers and fought for Hispanic and labor rights?
César Chávez
What 1968 event caused riots in over 100 cities across the U.S.?
Assassination of MLK
What did the Supreme Court rule in Loving v. Virginia (1967)?
Bans on interracial marriage are unconstitutional
What radical group believed in self-defense and wore black berets?
Black Panther Party
What amendment outlawed poll taxes?
24th Amendment
Anti-lynching crusade and her activism in the suffrage movement,She was an investigative journalist, founded NAACP.
Ida B. Wells
What student-led protest in 1960 helped desegregate lunch counters?
Greensboro Sit-ins
Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans.
Korematsu v. US
What group organized the Freedom Rides in 1961?
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
What executive order did President Truman sign to desegregate the military?
Executive Order 9981