Passed in 1793, it guaranteed the right of a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
100
Reversed Plessy v. Ferguson "separate but equal" ruling.
What is Brown vs. Board?
100
A black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter.
What is the Niagara Movement?
100
Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is 1963?
100
American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
Who is MLK Jr.?
200
Passed in 1850, it was a series of legislative measures addressing slavery and the boundaries of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
The Court stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
200
Led by Huey P. Newton, their mission was to take a more violent and radical approach to the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Black Panther Party?
200
The first slaves arrive in the colonies.
What is 1619?
200
African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
Passed in 1968, this law made all racial discrimination illegal in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
300
Decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
300
Independent student-led groups who used direct-action protests against segregation in dozens of southern communities.
What is SNCC?
300
The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
What is 1857?
300
African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist.
Who is Malcolm X?
400
This prohibited the government from denying any man the right to vote based on race, ethnicity, or color.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
400
This decision ruled that the prohibition on interracial marriage was unconstitutional.
What is Loving vs. Virginia?
400
Formed in 1909, its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".
What is the NAACP?
400
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery.
What is 1865?
400
Escaped slavery and subsequently made about thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
This banned all slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
500
The decision stated that affirmative action was unfair if it lead to reverse discrimination.
What is University of California v. Bakke?
500
Led by Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement and the march on Washington.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC)?
500
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
What is 1808?
500
Slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters.