Known for his brilliant rhetorical skills, the most famous of civil rights leaders was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
Over a quarter of a million people gathered for a civil rights demonstration that culminated with the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 in this U.S. capital city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
100
Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama led to the formation of this religious civil rights organization, presided over by MLK, Jr., in 1957.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
100
This landmark Supreme Court case of 1954 struck down Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), declaring separate schools for blacks and whites to be "inherently unequal".
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS?
100
The separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group.
What is segregation?
200
The best known photograph of this little old lady who refused to give up her seat aboard a segregated bus includes the UPI journalist Nicholas Chriss in the background. Most assumed he was just another angry white segregationist; in fact, he was there to document her protest.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
Nine black students required Army paratrooper escorts to integrate a public high school in this Arkansas city.
What is Little Rock?
200
This student-led association organized sit-ins and voter-registration drives throughout the American South; members endured beatings, arrest, and arson; three were murdered in Mississippi in 1964.
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
200
This 1964 Congressional act outlawed segregation in all public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
An act of occupying seats in a racially segregated establishment in organized protest against discrimination.
What is a sit-in?
300
Lead counsel for the NAACP, he argued this monumental Supreme Court case regarding school desegregation before becoming a Supreme Court justice himself.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
A boycott held in this Alabama city lasted over a year (1955-1956) before city officials agreed to desegregate its buses.
What is Montgomery?
300
Members of this domestic terrorist organization were responsible for dozens of deaths during the civil rights movement; among their acts of terrorism was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that claimed the lives of four elementary-age girls.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
300
This 1965 Congressional act prohibited measures--such as literacy tests and poll taxes--intended to disenfranchise blacks.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
300
Also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, this campaign was launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting.
What is Freedom Summer?
400
Following JFK's assassination in 1963, this U.S. president took up his predecessor's mantle and signed a number of civil rights and voting rights acts into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
400
A campaign of non-violent civil disobedience in this Alabama city drew national attention when news stations broadcast police assaulting protesters with clubs, fire hoses, and dogs.
What is Birmingham?
400
This white supremacist organization claimed over 60,000 members and was best known for its opposition to school integration.
What is the White Citizens' Council (WCC)?
400
This Constitutional amendment--designed to end discrimination on the basis of gender and to uphold women's basic rights--died in 1982 when three fourths of states failed to ratify it.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
400
These brothers, members of an iconic political family, were assassinated, in part, for their support of the civil rights movement.
Who are John F. and Bobby Kennedy?
500
The most famous of Hispanic-American activists, he brought attention to the plight of migrant workers by going on hunger strikes (one of which lasted 38 days).
Who is Cesar Chavez?
500
By the fourth day, a sit-in organized by four college students at Woolworth's lunch counter on 2/1/1960 galvanized some 400 protesters in this North Carolina city.
What is Greensboro?
500
This civil rights organization sponsored an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee the equal rights of American women.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
500
This governmental agency was established by Congress in 1964 to enforce laws against workplace discrimination.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
500
On March 7, 1965, an Alabama sheriff ordered all white males over 21 in the county to be deputized to stop civil-rights marchers from crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge; the event came to be known as "Bloody Sunday" after state troopers on horseback trampled marchers in this city.