Civil Rights

Question 1

1954

Answer 1

Brown vs Topeka

Question 2

1955

Answer 2

Emmett Till murdered, Rosa parks arrested and the start of the Montogomery Bus Boycott

Question 3

1956

Answer 3

Supreme courts state that buses should be desegregated (Browder vs Gayle case)

Question 4

1957

Answer 4

Founding of the SCLC, Little Rock High School. Civil Rights Act

Question 5

1960

Answer 5

First Greensboro sit in. Formation of SNCC

Question 6

1961

Answer 6

Freedom Rides begin

Question 7

1962

Answer 7

James Meredith enrols at Mississippi University

Question 8

1963

Answer 8

Campaign C launched in Birmingham, Alabama. March on Washington, MLK makes the “I have a dream speech” JFK assassinated.

Question 9

1964

Answer 9

Freedom Summer in Mississipi. Civil Rights Act.

Question 10

1965

Answer 10

Voting Rights Act. Malcom X assassinated. Selma March.

Question 11

1966

Answer 11

James Meredith leads ‘March against fear’. Black panthers established. MLK’s campaign in the north.

Question 12

1968

Answer 12

Assassination of MLK. Kerner Report on race riots.

Question 13

1969

Answer 13

Nixon becomes president

Question 14

1970

Answer 14

Voting Rights Act revised to ban literacy tests.