This major political leader gave the famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
This is the location where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have A Dream Speech.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
100
This city was the site of a massive boycott of city buses due to the segregation present in the South.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
100
This was the high school in Alabama that the Little Rock Nine attended.
What is Central High School?
100
This African American civil rights group was formed in 1909 with the mission "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".
What is NAACP?
200
This is what SNCC stands for.
What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
200
The purpose of this movement was to end segreation in facilities serving interstate bus passengers.
What are the Freedom Rides?
200
This event was one of the first to put Martin Luther King, Jr. in the spotlight of the Civil Rights Movement and cemented his role as a nationwide leader.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
200
This court case ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
200
This black woman refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
The case Brown v Board of Education of Topeka declared this court case unconstitutional.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
300
This imporatant legislation for civil rights was passed in response to the march from Selma to Montgomery and banned literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
300
This SNCC leader switched from the nonviolent approach to the violent one by joining the Black Panthers.
Who is Stokley Carmichael?
300
This man was the first black man to attend the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
300
The amendment abolished the poll tax that had been instituted in southern states after Reconstruction to keep blacks from voting.
What is the 24th Amendment?
400
This is the number of times the KKK attempted to assassinate MLK before they were successful.
What is two times?
400
This significant march had more TV coverage than any presidential inauguration before it.
What is the March on Washington?
400
In this year, a massive sit-in movement swept the South at lunch counters protesting black segregation.
What is 1960?
400
This woman started citizenship schools in the south.
Who is Septima Clark?
400
This Southern city was the most segregated city in the United States at the time of the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
500
This civil rights activist had an early encounter with the KKK.
Who is Malcolm X?
500
On this day, six hundred marchers were stopped by police as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
What is Bloody Sunday?
500
This place was the first lunch counter to be occupied and hold sit-ins.
What is the Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina?
500
This study used baby dolls and interviewed black children that helped the outcome of Brown v. the Board of Education?
What is the Doll Study?
500
This fourteen year old boy who was murdered for whistling at a white women and provided a rallying point for civil rights activists.