people
things
places
events
concepts
100

Christian pastor who led the civil rights movement

Martin Luther King Jr.

100

drawing boundaries to limits certain groups' representation

gerrymandering

100

Eisenhower sent the military here to uphold integration

Little Rock, Arkansas

100

exposed lynchings as commonplace in the South

murder of Emmett Till

100

Martin Luther King Jr's philosophy

peaceful protest/ civil disobedience

200

refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man

Rosa Parks

200

black militia group that advocated for self-defense

Black Panther Party

200

where the first armed conflict of the Cold War took place

Korea

200

fighting against fascism abroad and racism at home

Double-V Crusade

200

Malcolm X's philosophy

'by any means necessary'

300

civil rights leader who joined the Nation of Islam

Malcolm X

300

ruled that 'separate but equal' was unconstitutional

Brown vs Board of Education

300

where the 'I have a dream' speech was given

Washington, DC

300

college students implementing peaceful protest

Greensboro sit-ins

300

de jure

discrimination connected to the law and policy

400

youngest person to be elected president of the US

John F. Kennedy

400

banks denying loans on the basis of where a person lived

redlining

400

where the bus boycotts took place for over a year

Montgomery

400

began a decade of political violence in the 1960's

JFK assassination

400

de facto

discrimination based on individuals' actions

500

broke the color barrier in professional baseball

Jackie Robinson

500

billions of dollars of financial aid given to Western Europe

Marshall Plan

500

prioritized in a 'campaign' due to heightened levels of racism

Birmingham

500

closest the Cold War ever was to becoming a 'hot war'

Cuban Missile Crisis

500

includes domino theory and containment

Truman Doctrine

600

the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall

600

banned discrimination on basis of race, gender, religion

Civil Rights Act of 1964

600

suburban living with identical-looking houses

Levittowns

600
period of political persecutions and heightened fear of communism

Red Scare/ McCarthyism

600

discriminatory institutions still having negative impacts

systemic racism