Causes and Protests
This group took part in sit-ins in on February 1, 1960.
What is the Greensboro Four?
This civil rights leader coined the phrase, “by any means necessary.”
Who is Malcolm X?
Martin Luther King, Jr. was known for promoting this kind of protest.
What is nonviolent?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.
Who is Lincoln?
This Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This African American woman’s refusal to give up her seat to a White man led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The date that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his
"I Have A Dream" speech
What is August 28, 1963?
This 1954 case ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This President signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
This legally forced racial segregation in the South from the end of Reconstruction (1877) until the early civil rights era (1950s).
What is the Jim Crow Laws?
This African American religious leader believed violence was necessary to create change.
Who is Malcolm X?
The date Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
What is April 4, 1968?
This law abolished literacy tests as requirement for registering to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The FBI declared which group a communist organization and an enemy of the U.S. government?
What is the Black Panthers?
This Underground Railroad Conductor made 19 perilous trips to the deep South and guided over 3,000 slaves to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Dr. King wrote this famous speech at the March on Washington.
What is the I have a dream speech?
This 1896 decision allowed the use of "separate but equal" racially segregated accommodations and facilities.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This case in the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the discriminatory separate but equal policy.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This happened in Montgomery.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Dr. King was awarded this prize in 1964.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
This 1967 decision holds that state laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage are unconstitutional.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This politician personally stood in a school doorway to prevent Black students from entering in 1963.
Who is George Wallace?