Civil Rights Figures
This Baptist minister led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This 1955–1956 protest successfully ended segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
This 1964 law outlawed segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This 1963 event drew over 250,000 people to D.C. in support of civil rights and featured a famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
What is the March on Washington?
When did the civil rights movement start?
What is 1954
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking a major boycott in 1955.
Who is rosa parks?
This 1960 protest began when four Black college students sat at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.
What is the Greensboro Sit-in?
This 1965 act eliminated literacy tests and other barriers to Black voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
In this 1957 crisis, nine Black students faced mobs and the National Guard when trying to attend Central High School.
What is the little Rock Nine crisis?
When did the civil rights movement end?
What is 1968
A key strategist of the nonviolent protest movement, this man helped organize the March on Washington
Who is Bayard Rustin?
Organized by SNCC and CORE, this movement challenged segregated interstate bus travel in the South.
What is the Freedom Rides?
This 1957 law was the first civil rights legislation passed since Reconstruction.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
In 1963, this city became a major battleground for civil rights, with televised images of police dogs and fire hoses shocking the nation.
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
This Supreme Court decision in 1954 declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This leader of the Nation of Islam advocated for Black empowerment and was assassinated in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
This 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery highlighted the struggle for Black voting rights.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
This amendment, ratified after the Civil War, was enforced during the 1960s to guarantee equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This bombing of a Black church in Birmingham killed four young girls and galvanized support for the civil rights movement.
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing?
This tactic, used by MLK and others, involved peaceful violation of unjust laws.
What is civil disobedience?
As head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, he argued Brown v. Board of Education and later became a Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This campaign, focused on ending segregation in one of the most racially divided cities in America, led to the jailing of MLK and his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
This 1968 law banned discrimination in housing based on race, religion, or national origin.
What is the Fair Housing Act?
This Mississippi voter registration drive in 1964 sought to expand Black political participation and was met with extreme violence.
What is Freedom Summer?
This slogan expressed the growing demand for racial pride, economic empowerment, and self-determination in the late 60s.
What is "Black Power"?