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This famous Washington, DC, monument was the site for King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is The Lincoln Memorial
This civil rights leader's assassination inspired the formation of the Black Panther Party in 1966.
Who is Malcolm X
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ended the doctrine of "separate but equal" that had been established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
In 1969, a group called "Indians of All Tribes" began a 19-month occupation of this former federal prison in California to protest broken treaties with Native Americans.
What is Alcatraz
These laws, designed to enforce racial segregation in the South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era, were named for a character from a racist minstrel show.
What are the Jim Crow Laws
While in town to support a strike by sanitation workers, King was assassinated in this American city, now home to Elvis Presley's Graceland.
What is Memphis, Tennessee
At the age of 15, this activist was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, nine months before Rosa Parks's famous encounter.
Who is Claudette Colvin
This race-conscious approach to college admissions was upheld in the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, but overturned in 2023 in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard/UNC.
What is Affirmative action
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, this landmark 1964 act outlawed discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on February 12, 1909, in honor of this president's birthday.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King was incredibly smart, skipping multiple grades to go to this college at 15 years old.
What is Morehouse College
This organization promoting Marxist economics and self-defense for Black Americans was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
What is the Black Panther Party
Loving v. Virginia was an appropriate name for the Supreme Court case affirming this civil right.
What is Interracial marriage
Ava DuVernay, the first Black woman to have her film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, directed this 2014 box office hit, which focused on the three months leading up to King's famed march to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
What is Selma
Civil Rights Leader Malcolm X took a pilgrimage to this place in 1964 for his spiritual, transformative journey.
What is Mecca
This prime number represents the atomic number of copper, the number of days in February in leap year, and the number of times King was arrested.
What is 29
This organizer of the Freedom Rides also became an outspoken advocate for gay rights in the 1980s.
Who is Bayard Rustin
In the 1964 case, Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, the Court ruled that this kind of business could not refuse service to Black travelers, upholding the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What are Hotels / Motels
This former NAACP attorney made history in 1967 when he was sworn in as the first Black Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
This famous poet wrote about the black experience and injustice during the Civil Rights movement; her most well-known poem is "Still I Rise".
Who is Maya Angelou
This was Martin Luther King's original first name, before his dad changed both of their names in honor of Reformation leader Martin Luther.
What is Michael
This Civil Rights leader was the first African American to earn a Harvard PhD, challenged segregation and advocated for black advancement, and founded and edited the magazine for the NAACP.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois
The 1963 landmark Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright required US states to provide this for criminal defendants who cannot afford their own.
What is a Lawyer
These June 1969 riots at a New York City tavern are widely considered the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What is Stonewall Riots
Though he never recorded a song, Dr. King won one of these awards posthumously in 1971 for his speech "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam."
What is a Grammy