In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a major campaign set forward by the black community in the United States of America to gain equal rights for black people, given that slavery had been abolished in the Civil War and black people were still being discriminated against. In the following quiz, we want to talk about this Civil Rights Movement and some of its key people involved, including the great Martin Luther King, Jr!
Force anyone taking public transportation to give up his/her seat
Establish racially segregated public schools
Prevent any registered adult from voting
Deny anyone a public library card
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The Southern Poverty Law Center
The American Civil Liberties Union
Abraham Lincoln
Malcolm X
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Mahatma Gandhi
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The funeral of President John F. Kennedy
The inauguration of President Lyndon Johnson
Bloody Sunday
The March on Washington
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Selma to Montgomery March
Send federal authorities to southern states to help register black voters
Outlawed voting literacy tests
Made it unlawful for certain jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to change any voting procedures without federal approval
Required certain jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to provide voters with free transportation to the polls
A major civil rights leader who worked with Dr. King
The first protester killed during the “Bloody Sunday” police attacks
The Supreme Court justice who wrote the Brown v. Board of Ed. decision
The pro-segregationist governor of Alabama
Congress of Racial Equality
Black Panther Party
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
A campaign to register black voters in Mississippi
A series of protests in southern cities to oppose the incarceration of civil rights activists
A bus tour Dr. King took throughout the South to galvanize black communities
A march from Selma to Montgomery
George Wallace (Gov. of Alabama)
J. Edgar Hoover (Director of the FBI)
Bull Conner (City of Birmingham Police Commissioner)
Richard Nixon (future U.S. President)
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