The March on ______ was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial

The sit-ins started on 1 February 1960, when four black students from A & T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, _____

______ Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.

Who was the first black supreme court justice?

Which city was Martin Luther King Jr.assassinated in?

Which President Signed the Civil Rights Act?

The _____ Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the African-American population.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, (1954), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that laws establishing racial ______ in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the schools are otherwise equal in quality.

______ was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus Boycott.

A key leader in the development of the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, founded the _____ Party, A radical black power group in October 1966 in Oakland, California

Martin Luther King Jr. helped found the ________ in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the South.

On November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the lower court's ruling that bus segregation violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment

Baseball great who became the first African American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

On July 26, 1948, President ______ signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. The order mandated the desegregation of the U.S. military.

In 1896, Plessy vs. Ferguson required

Rather than ingegrating schools, many southern counties fought against desegregation by