Key figures
He delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
1963 march where MLK gave his famous speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This U.S. law banned segregation in public places in 1964.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Year the U.S. Civil Rights Act was passed.
What is 1964?
Term for U.S. laws enforcing segregation, especially in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, sparking a boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
DOUBLE POINTS: Claudette Colvin did it first!
The 1965 U.S. march from Selma to Montgomery was about this issue.
What is voting rights?
This U.S. law outlawed discriminatory voting practices in 1965.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Year of the Selma to Montgomery marches.
What is 1965?
The group of Black students who integrated a previously all-white High School in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Leader of the Nation of Islam who advocated for Black empowerment.
Who is Malcolm X?
This process changed the Constitution to count Aboriginal people in the census.
What is the 1967 Referendum?
This Australian legal change allowed Aboriginal Australians to be counted in the census.
What is the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) Act 1967?
Year of the Australian Referendum.
What is 1967?
The term used for legally mandated racial separation.
What is segregation?
Aboriginal Australian who led the 1965 Freedom Ride.
Who is Charles Perkins?
This city in Alabama was the site of major civil rights bus boycotts in the 1950s, influencing the 1960s movement.
What is Montgomery?
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional (1954 but central to 1960s activism).
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Year of the first Freedom Ride in Australia.
What is 1965?
The Australian Prime Minister who supported the 1967 referendum.
Who is Harold Holt?
U.S. President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The name of the protest where Aboriginal Australians set up a tent outside Parliament House in 1972.
What is the Aboriginal Tent Embassy?
This act gave the Board for the Protection of Aborigines significant powers over reserves and Aboriginal people, including the power to remove people from reserves and control the custody and education of children.
What is the Aborigines Protection Act?
Year Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
What is 1968?
The slogan associated with Malcolm X's philosophy.
What is "By any means necessary"?