People
Events
Groups
Surprise
100
A spokesperson of the Nation of Islam who supported the use of violence as self-defense and believed in standing up to injustice.
Malcolm X
100
The island off of San Francisco that was taken over by the American Indian Movement in an effort to reclaim land.
Alcatraz
100
Organization that focus on changing laws to achieve equality. (Example: Brown v. Board of Education)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
100
Hippies often lived these groups where people shared everything. They emphasized peace and unity and usually farmed most of their food.
Communes
200
NAACP lawyer who worked to end school segregation and eventually became a Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
200
This movement was the rejection of traditions and materialism of middle-class America and it resulted in a generation gap.
Counterculture movement
200
Student group that organized peaceful protests like sit-ins and marches. Eventually became more militant.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
200
Martin Luther King Jr.'s words led to the passing of civil rights legislation with his 'I Have a Dream' speech. What was his famous written work that also led to new legislation?
Letter from Birmingham Jail
300
This Latino civil rights activist was the organizer of the National Farm Workers Association and the leader of the boycott against grape growers.
Cesar Chavez
300
What court case ended school segregation when it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education?
Plessy v. Ferguson
300
Peaceful group of clergy who fought against segregation- organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
300
This lunch counter was the location for sit-ins led by college students. Protestors were threatened, humiliated, and had food poured on them.
Woolworth's
400
The mother of a young black man who was brutally murdered by white men in Money, Mississippi. She chose to have an open-casket funeral, which impacted the civil rights movement.
Mamie Till
400
After the arrest of Rosa Parks, this organization coordinated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
400
Integrated group of activists who organized the Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
400
Chicanos (Mexican-Americans) wanted equality with white Americans and what educational opportunity?
Bilingualism
500
Field Secretary of the Mississippi NAACP. His assassination brought attention to the movement.
Medgar Evers
500
Race riots throughout the U.S. were incited by this new leader of the SNCC:
Stokely Carmichael
500
A radical civil rights group that believed in creating change through aggressive confrontation.
Black Panther Party
(Black Panthers)
500
President Truman's executive order to desegregate the military
Executive Order 9981