People
This leader organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and promoted nonviolent resistance.
MLK
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.
Brown V. Board of Education
These laws restricted voting, education, transportation, and public accommodations, shaping racial segregation from the 1870s to the 1960s.
Jim Crow Laws
Founded in 1909, this organization fought segregation through court cases like Brown v. Board of Education.
NAACP
What does NAACP stand for? (100Points)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
This civil rights figure was a major voice for Black nationalism and self‑defense
Malcolm X
This protest lasted 381 days and ended with a Supreme Court ruling against bus segregation.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This amendment removed a major financial barrier that prevented many Black Americans from voting.
24th Amendment
This group, founded in 1966 in Oakland, was known for community patrols and free breakfast programs.
Black Panthers
What does SCLC stand for? (100 Points)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
His mother insisted on an open‑casket funeral so the world could see the brutality of racism.
Emmett Till
Over 250,000 people gathered for this event demanding jobs and freedom in 1963. One of the biggest protests in the history of Civil Rights.
March on Washington
This law banned discrimination in renting or buying homes. (They have to say the year too)
Fair Housing Act 1968
This organization coordinated the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later the March on Washington.
SCLC
What court case did Brown v. Board of education overturned and what did that court case rule out? (100 Points, half points for only the name)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, ruling that state-mandated separation of races.
He argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
This student‑led action sparked a wave of sit‑ins across the South, leading to widespread desegregation of lunch counters.
Greensboro Sit-in
This law authorized federal examiners to oversee elections in states with histories of voter suppression. (They have to say the date too)
Voting Rights Act 1965
This group resurged during the Civil Rights era, bombing churches and attacking activists.
Ku Klux Klan
This 1963 event in Birmingham, where police used dogs and fire hoses against children, helped push President Kennedy to propose the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (1000 Points)
Birmingham Children’s Crusade
She helped coordinate the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer voter‑registration campaign.
Ella Baker
Television coverage of this violent attack on marchers helped build national support for the Voting Rights Act.
Bloody Sunday
What is one difference between the Civil Rights act of 1960 and the Civil Rights act of 1957?
1. 1957 created the Civil Rights Division; 1960 added penalties for blocking voting
2. 1957 Symbolic first step, limited power while 1960 Provided groundwork for Voting Rights Act (1965)
3. Structure of 1957: DOJ Civil Rights Division, Civil Rights Commission while 1960: Federal inspection of voter rolls, court referees
This segregationist group was especially strong in Mississippi, opposing voter registration drives during Freedom Summer.
White Citizens' Council
This FBI program targeted civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panthers, through surveillance and disruption. (2000 Points)
COINTELPRO