Key Figures
This woman's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955 sparked a year-long boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This 1954 Supreme Court ruling declared that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Protesters who challenged segregation on buses.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This organization, co-founded by MLK Jr. in 1957, aimed to advance civil rights through nonviolent resistance.
What is the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)?
This Alabama city was the site of the famous 1955 bus boycott and is known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy."
What is Montgomery?
This Baptist minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, this major 1964 act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Protest where people refused to leave segregated lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
This student-led organization was a major force in the sit-ins and voter registration drives of the 1960s.
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
Dr. King wrote a famous "Letter" from a jail in this Alabama city after being arrested during 1963 protests.
What is Birmingham?
This human rights activist and Nation of Islam leader famously advocated for civil rights "by any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
This 1965 act was designed to overcome legal barriers at state and local levels that prevented African Americans from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This campaign used protests in Alabama to expose segregation.
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
Founded in 1909, this is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
This city was the starting point for three 1965 marches for voting rights that ended in Montgomery.
What is Selma?
This book helped start the women’s rights movement in the 1960s
What is Betty Friedan & The Feminine Mystique
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1964, abolished the use of poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
A summer campaign to register Black voters in the South.
What is Freedom Summer?
This group was founded in 1966 to challenge police brutality and provide community social programs like free breakfast for children.
Who are the Black Panthers?
Dr. King was assassinated in 1968 while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in this Tennessee city.
What is Memphis?
He started the United Farm Workers (UFW) to give laborers a voice and better working conditions.
This 1967 Supreme Court case struck down all state laws banning interracial marriage.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This boycott began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This 1969 riot at a Greenwich Village tavern is considered the spark for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What is Stonewall?
The first lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 occurred in this North Carolina city.
What is Greensboro?