Landmark Court Cases
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine, making segregation legal across the U.S
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
This "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This nonviolent protest tactic involved activists occupying "whites-only" spaces, like lunch counters, and refusing to leave.
What is a sit-in?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th amendment?
This was the "status quo" in the South before the 1960s—a system of legal and social racial separation.
What is segregation?
This NAACP lawyer led the legal battle to end school segregation and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This Baptist minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner became the face of the nonviolent civil rights movement
Who is MLK Jr.?
These 1961 activists rode buses into the Deep South to test the Supreme Court's ruling that segregated interstate bus travel was illegal.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This 1964 law banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to this city to protect nine students entering Central High School.
What is Little Rock Arkansas?
Who is in the Super Bowl
Patriots V. Seahawks
He was the Governor of Arkansas who used the National Guard to defy federal court orders and block school integration.
Who is Orval Faubus?
In this famous 1963 document, Dr. King argued that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
What is the Letter from Birmingham Jail?
This landmark 1965 law outlawed literacy tests and sent federal examiners to the South to register voters.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Founded by Huey P. Newton, this group advocated for armed self-defense and "Black Power" rather than nonviolence.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This landmark 1954 ruling overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by declaring that "separate but equal" has no place in public education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
As the first African American woman elected to Congress, she later became the first Black candidate for a major party's nomination for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This 1963 event saw 250,000 people gather at the Lincoln Memorial to demand civil and economic rights.
What is the March on Washington?
This 1964 amendment prohibited both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This group of Southern politicians worked together in Congress to block and filibuster civil rights legislation.
Who was the Congressional bloc of Southern Democrats?
This 1950 case specifically challenged segregation at the University of Texas, ruling that a separate law school for African Americans was not equal.
What is Sweatt V. Painter?
He was the first African American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, becoming a symbol of racial progress.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, which met with police violence on "Bloody Sunday," was organized to demand this specific right.
What are voting rights?
Who sings Wagon Wheel?
Darius Rucker
What room has no doors or windows?
A Mushroom