Who was the first African American justice on the Supreme Court in 1967?

In 1947, who was the first African American in Major League Baseball?

What was the purpose of the 1961 Freedom Rides organized by the Congress of Racial Equity (CORE)?

In 1964, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement?

In 1954, What was the main outcome of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case?

1863: President Abraham Lincoln’s _______________ Proclamation legally frees all slaves in the Confederacy.

1865: Congress passed the ____ Amendment, outlawing slavery marks the beginning of Reconstruction.

1866: “______________________” are passed by former Confederate states.

1866: Congress passed the _______________ Act, making African Americans citizens and grants them equal rights with whites.

1866: The white supremacist organization known as the ______________________ is founded in Tennessee.

1867: Five all-black ____________ are founded.

1881: Tennessee passes the first of the “____________” segregation laws. This segregates state railroads.

1890: Mississippi enacts a ________________ tax, which most African Americans are unable to pay. This keeps many blacks from voting.

1896: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregated, or “separate but ______________,” public facilities for whites and blacks are legal.

1910-1920: The ________________ of southern African Americans to northern industrial town begins.

1911: The National ________________ League is founded to help many African Americans to find jobs and housing.

1917: Forty African Americans and eight whites are killed in ________________ in East St. Louis, Illinois.

1919: During the so-called “________________,” scores of race riots across the country leave at least 100 people dead.

1931: The “__________ Boys” case attracts national attention and will help fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

1942: The interracial Congress of Racial __________ (CORE) is formed in Chicago.

1947: Baseball great ______________________ becomes the first African American to break the color barrier and be allowed to play in the major leagues.

1948: President __________ issues an executive order that desegregates the military.

In 1954,________________ v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation, overturning its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson of separate, but equal.

1955: ____________________ refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white person.

1956: The U.S. Supreme Court rules ________________ of buses in Montgomery unconstitutional.

1957: The Reverend ____________________ Helps found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to fight for full equality for African Americans.

1957: Soldiers escort nine African American students to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas. They are known as the ____________________.

1960: Four African American college students hold a ________________ to integrate Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

1962: African American radical ________________ becomes the national minister of the Nation of Islam.

1963: More than 200,000 people participate in the March on ________________, the largest civil rights demonstration ever; MLK Jr. gives his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

1963: Four African American girls are killed in the bombing of the ________________ Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

1964: Civil rights groups organize a massive African American voter registration drive in Mississippi known as “________________ Summer.”

1964: President ____________ signs the Civil Rights Act, giving the federal government far-reaching powers to prosecute discrimination in employment, voting, and education.

1964: Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the __________ Peace Prize.

1965: ______________ is assassinated in New York by gunmen by members of the Nation of Islam.

1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. organizes a protest march from __________________ to Montgomery, Alabama for African American voting rights.

1965: In the wake of the Selma-Montgomery March, the __________ Rights Act is passed, outlawing the practices used in the South to prevent blacks from voting.

1965: Race riots break out in the ________________ area of Los Angeles, leaving 34 dead and about a thousand hurt.

1966: Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, calls for “black __________” in a speech, ushering in a more militant civil rights stand.

1966: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seales found the Black __________ Party, a radical black power group, in Oakland, California.

1967: _________________ Marshall becomes the first African American justice on the Supreme Court.

1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in __________, Tennessee; his murder sparks a week of rioting across the U.S.