MAJOR EVENTS & TURNING POINTS
The first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This movement fought to end segregation and discrimination in the 1950s–60s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
The organization co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1909.
What is the NAACP?
The Supreme Court case that ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The protest sparked by Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The year slavery was officially abolished in the United States.
What is 1865?
The movement emphasizing racial pride, self-defense, and economic independence in the 1960s.
What is the Black Power Movement?
The civil rights group led by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
This 1964 law banned segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The nonviolent protest tactic used at lunch counters in the 1960s.
What are sit-ins?
The 1919 period of racial violence across the U.S. was known as this.
What is the Red Summer?
This early 20th-century movement encouraged Black cultural expression through art and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The student-led organization active in sit-ins and freedom rides.
What is SNCC?
The law that protected Black Americans’ right to vote in 1965.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Protests after police violence often include this phrase.
What is “No justice, no peace”?
This 1963 event featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
The modern movement sparked by police brutality cases, founded in 2013.
What is Black Lives Matter?
The organization founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
What is the Black Panther Party?
The legal doctrine overturned by Brown v. Board.
What is “separate but equal”?
The protest style promoted by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is nonviolent protest?
The Great Migration and the Underground Railroad both represent this shared theme.
What is Black migration for freedom and opportunity?
This movement encouraged Black Americans to migrate from the South to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
The first permanent civil rights organization in the U.S., founded in 1896.
What is the National Association of Colored Women (NACW)?
The 15th Amendment guarantees this fundamental right.
What is, the right to vote?
The 1965 march demanding voting rights in Alabama.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?