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100
Woman whose actions began the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Year that Kennedy and Nixon ran against each other for President
What is 1960?
100
Ruled that segregation of public space was legal as long as facilities were separate but equal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
Location where nine African American students were barred from enrollign at Central High School
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
100
Term for laws throughout the South that separated public space
What is Jim crow laws?
200
President who passed major civil rights legislation in the 1960s
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan when running for the Democratic nomination for president
Who is Robert Kennedy?
200
Ruled segregation in public schools was illegal
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
200
City where the sit-in movement began at the Woolworth's lunch counter
What is Greensboro, NC?
200
Teams of African American and white protestors who rode buses together throughout the South
What is Freedom Riders?
300
Supposed lone assassin of JFK
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
300
Most comprehensive civil rights law passed in the 1960s
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
Guaranteed the right to an attorney even if the defendant could not afford one
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
300
Location where MLK was jailed for protesting
What is Birmingham?
300
Term for Lyndon B. Johnson's plans for helping end poverty in the U.S.
What is the Great Society?
400
Republican candidate in the presidential election of 1964
Who is Barry Goldwater?
400
Location of "Bloody Sunday" when hundreds of civil rights marchers were attacked by police
What is Selma, Alabama?
400
Police must inform suspects of their rights when arrested
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
400
City of the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963
What is Dallas?
400
Group of African American ministers led by MLK who advocated non-violent protests
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
500
Student who was denied the right to enroll at the University of Mississippi
Who is James Meredith?
500
Event that started the NAACP in in the early 1900s
What is the Niagara Falls Meeting?
500
Guaranteed the accused the right to an attorney when questioned by the police
What is Escobedo v. Illinois?
500
Organization founded by Cesar Chavez to protest the rights of migrant laborers
What is United Mine Workers?
500
This amendment ended poll taxes throughout the United States
What is the 24th amendment?