Name that Place (in Civil Rights)
By the Year (in Civil Rights)
Martin Luther King
Changing Times
100
Oliver Brown of Brown vs. the Board of Education was from this state.
What is Kansas?
100
Lyndon Johnson became president in this year.
What is 1963?
100
Martin Luther King wrote this letter having been arrested for protesting in Alamaba in 1963.
What is the "Letter from A Birmingham Jail?"
100
Indiciative of changing attitudes towards the cold war, fear of nuclear attack introduced this star of the Civil Defense film, Duck and Cover to schoolchildren.
Who is Bert the Turtle?
200
Emmett Till was murdered in the town of Money in this state.
What is Mississippi?
200
The Court handed down the decision in Brown v. Board of Education this year.
What is 1954?
200
In 1963, Martin Luther King gave this speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
What is "I have a Dream"?
200
A successor to the New Deal, Lyndon Johnson changed the way America addressed poverty with this signature program.
What is the Great Society?
300
These protests tried to ride Greyhound buses from Washington D.C. to Lousisana but never made it there.
What are the "Freedom Rides"?
300
This year Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
When was 1955?
300
Martin Luther King led this religous based civil rights organization.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
300
Though her middle and last names are Millicent and Roberts kids who play with this doll changed to just calling her by her first name.
Who is Barbie?
400
The sit-in movement began in Greensboro, North Carolina at one of these lunch counters.
What is a Woolworths
400
Writing about changing attitudes of women in America, she wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963.
Who was Betty Friedan?
400
Martin Luther King was the most famous pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in this city. (Hint: It is now right across the street from the Martin Luther King National Historic Park)
Where is Atlanta, Georgia?
400
Speaking about liberalism at home and liberalism abroad, John Kennedy's signature program was better known as this.
What is the New Frontier?