This 1954 Supreme Court decision which outlawed discrimination in education and ultimately led to the dismantling of Jim Crow Laws.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
This Alabama city is most closely associated with the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement with the boycott of its bus system by black residents.
What is Montgomery?
100
This Birmingham church was bombed this year, killing Denise McNair, Carole Roberson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins
What is the Sixth Street Baptist Church?
100
This is his home state
What is Nebraska?
100
Stokley Carmicheal coined this phrase, which became the mantra of the youth civil rights movement in the late 1960s
What is "Black Power"?
200
What did the Brown II decision say?
That schools should desegregate “with all deliberate speed.”
200
The “sit-in movement” began in this city.
What is Greensboro?
200
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech during this event in August of this year.
What is the March on Washington?
200
This was his given last name.
What is Little?
200
They founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966.
Who are Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?
300
In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent National Guard troops to this southern city to enforce school integration
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
300
Martin Luther King, Jr., formed this organization to continue the civil rights struggle begun with the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
300
Protesters, most of whom were school-aged children, led "Project C" in this city when police chief Bull Conner ordered water hoses and police dogs be used against them.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
300
He felt that black Americans should pursue their rights using these.
What are "any means necessary"?
300
Martin Luther King was assassinated on this date. (month, day, and year)
What is April 4, 1968?
400
She led one of the most famous strikes of school students in Virginia in Prince Edward County in April of 1951
Who is Barbara Johns?
400
This group initiated the Freedom Rides in 1961.
Who is the Congress of Racial Equality?
400
He was tragically assassinated in November of this year.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
400
She was his wife and the mother of his six daughters
Who is Betty Shabazz?
400
He was the author of the 1965 report, _The Negro Family_, which described black family life among the urban poor as a "tangle of pathology."
Who is Daniel Moynihan?
500
This court case, originating in Virginia, became one of the five cases heard before the U. S. Supreme Court as Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
What is Davis v. Prince Edward County?
500
She is called the “midwife” of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Who is Ella Baker?
500
This governor of Alabama physically blocked the entrance to the University of Alabama to prevent Vivian Malone and James Hood, as had been ordered by the federal courts.
Who is George Wallace?
500
He was assassinated in this year at the Audubon Theater in New York City.
What is 1965?
500
In 1989 he became the first African American to be elected governor in the U. S.