Key Leaders
This leader promoted nonviolent protest and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This 1955 event began when a woman refused to give up her bus seat.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This law banned segregation in public places
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Peaceful protests like marches and sit-ins are known as this.
What is nonviolent resistance?
This activist refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This 1963 event featured MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This case upheld “separate but equal” before being overturned.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This law aimed to eliminate barriers to voting (1965).
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Students staged these at segregated lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
This leader promoted Black nationalism and was associated with the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
These 1961 rides challenged segregation in interstate travel.
What are the Freedom Rides?
This case ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.
What is Browder v. Gayle?
This amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This Birmingham campaign used children to protest segregation.
What is the Children’s Crusade?
This NAACP leader helped organize the legal fight against segregation.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This event involved violent attacks on peaceful marchers in Alabama (1965).
What is Bloody Sunday (Selma)?
This case reinforced Brown by ordering desegregation “with all deliberate speed.”
What is Brown II?
This act outlawed discrimination in housing (1968).
What is the Fair Housing Act?
This group used more militant approaches and community programs.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This SNCC leader later promoted Black Power and changed his name to Kwame Ture.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This crisis involved nine Black students integrating a high school in Arkansas.
What is the Little Rock Nine crisis?
This case ruled segregation in graduate schools unconstitutional before Brown.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
This order desegregated the military.
What is Executive Order 9981?
This philosophy emphasized racial pride, economic independence, and self-defense
What is Black Power?
This event shocked the nation when peaceful protesters were attacked by police dogs and fire hoses, helping build support for civil rights legislation.
What is the Birmingham Campaign (1963)?