Hockaday
Hockaday was founded in 1913 by this Educator
Who is Ela Hockaday?
Martin Luther King Jr was born in this city
What is Atlanta Georgia?
These laws enforced racial segregation in Southern states before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This woman is famous for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This year saw the first sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina.
What is 1960?
This Hockaday tradition marks the last day of a school year in Middle School
What is Green and White Day?
MLK delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at this 1963 event.
What is the March on Washington?
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled segregated public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
The March on Washington took place in front of this monument in 1963.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
In this year, James Meredith became the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
What is 1962?
What is 10?
This year marks the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee.
What is 1968?
This 1955 boycott in Alabama protested bus segregation after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This civil rights leader later became a U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
Who is John Lewis?
This 1961 event sent 13 young activists on a bus journey through the South to challenge segregation in interstate travel.
What is the Freedom Rides?
As World War II began in 1939, Hockaday’s Travel Class was aboard this ship when it was torpedoed at sea.
What is the SS Athenia?
MLK was awarded this major international prize for his civil rights work.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
This organization helped lead legal challenges to segregation and discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
This children-led protest in Birmingham, Alabama, was met with police dogs and fire hoses.
What is the Children’s Crusade?
The first African American woman elected to Congress from the Deep South after Reconstruction took office in this year.
What is 1972?
What is 1934?
Before becoming a national leader, MLK served as a pastor at this Atlanta church.
What is Dexter Avenue Baptist Church?
This federal law, passed in 1965, aimed to remove barriers that prevented African Americans from voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This civil rights activist famously disguised herself as a man to sneak into a segregated bus station to help organize boycotts.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
In this year, the first national school boycott against segregated schools, known as the “Freedom Schools” movement, began.
What is 1964?