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100
This law gave the government the power to force local officials to allow African Americans to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
100
He delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
100
These blacks and white rode buses together to ensure that anti-segregation laws were being enforced throughout the country.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
100
Unfair treatment
What is discrimination?
100
This group advocated for women's rights.
What is the National Organization for Women?
200
This man assassinated the president in 1963.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
200
She refused to give up her bus seat to a white person.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
This march to support the civil rights bill was led by MLK himself.
What is the March on Washington?
200
The separation of people by race.
What is segregation?
200
This group worked to gain equal rights for Native Americans.
What is the American Indian Movement?
300
This president's policy revolved around the creation of a "Great Society."
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
300
This group, which still exists today, seeks to gain equal rights and opportunities for African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
300
The time when African American refused to ride city buses in Alabama is known as this.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
An activist for women's rights.
What is a feminist?
300
She was the first female justice of the US Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
400
This president was assassinated in 1963.
Who is JFK?
400
This man was the leader of the Nation of Islam (AKA Black Muslims).
Who is Malcolm X?
400
This court case overturned segregation and the previous ruling of "separate but equal."
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
An act of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience by refusing to leave a public place.
What is a sit-in?
400
This movement was about racial pride and creating African American culture and political institutions.
What is the Black Power Movement?
500
This act banned discrimination in employment, voting, and public places based on race, religion, gender, or national origin.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
He organized and led a group of migrant farm workers known as the United Farm Workers union.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
500
MLK urged people to seek change through nonviolence and acts of this.
What is civil disobedience?
500
The bringing together of races.
What is integration?
500
This former Alabama governor vowed to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to keep African Americans from registering at the University of Alabama.
Who is George Wallace?