This court case established the legal and constitutional basis for segregation in 1896, on a "separate but equal" principle
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
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This young woman sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts when she refused to move seats on the public bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
This 1954 case overthrew the long-established "separate but equal" doctrine of the earlier Supreme Court to declare segregation "inherently unequal" and demanded an end to segregation "with all deliberate speed."
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
200
First high school in the South to be integrated.
What is Clinton High School, Tennessee?
300
Chief counsel for the NAACP; winner of the Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools; first black man to serve as a Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This preacher became the leader of the civil rights movement after his leadership during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
400
Trained civil rights activists in nonviolent methods at Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.
Who is Jim Lawson?
400
Diane Nash, John Lewis, and other Tennessee college students helped desegregate the lunch counters in THIS city in 1960.
What is Nashville, TN?
500
Governor Orval Faubus called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration of this school in 1957?
What is Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas?