MLK Jr.
This civil rights organization was founded by MLK Jr. in 1957.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
This is woman served as president of the Women's Political Council from 1950 to 1956.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
This year, the face of the Civil Rights Movement was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
What is 1968?
This 13-month protest boycotted public transportation in Alabama and had its own carpool services.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This leader was an attorney and led the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
MLK Jr. moved his family to this city to highlight slum conditions in 1966.
What is Chicago?
At this age, Rosa Parks defied segregation on public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is 42?
This year, four little girls were murdered in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing.
What is 1963?
This form of protest often took place in-door segregated establishments.
What is a sit-in?
This leader escorted the Little Rock Nine.
At this age, MLK Jr. help lead a bus boycott.
What is 26?
This woman was hired by MLK Jr. for leadership in SCLC, but later founded SNCC in 1960.
Who is Ella Baker?
This year President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
What is 1964?
This series of protests caused a business to lose around $200,000.
What are the Greensboro sit-ins?
This Alabama Commissioner ordered the use of police attack dogs and fire hoses against activists.
Who is Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor?
In 1956, MLK Jr. was arrested for this crime during a major boycott.
What is speeding?
This activist is the daughter of NAACP activist and beautician Vera Pigee.
Who is Mary Jane Pigee?
This year, nine Black students integrated a high school in Arkansas.
What is 1957?
John's Lewis's original speech for this protest was revised.
What is the March on Washington?
This governor told film viewers that his Black nurse was one of his best friends.
This leader was the successor to MLK Jr. after his death.
Ralph David Abernathy
This woman ran citizenship schools and training workshops across the South.
This year Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted of murder for his role in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
What is 2002?
These workers advocated for living wages and safer work conditions in Memphis, Tennessee during 1968.
What are sanitation workers?
This man is often credited as the first to do a blackface performance in the early 19th-century
Who is Thomas Rice?