Civil Rights - Timeline

Question 1

14th Amendment

Answer 1

1868

Question 2

What was the 14th Amendment?

Answer 2

Equal citizenship to everyone born in America

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

1870

Question 4

What was the 15th Amendment?

Answer 4

Equal voting rights to all citizens regardless of race

Question 5

Jim Crow Laws in the south

Answer 5

1890s

Question 6

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 6

1896

Question 7

Smith v. Allwright

Answer 7

1944

Question 8

Morgan v. Virginia

Answer 8

1946

Question 9

Journey of Reconciliation

Answer 9

9 April 1947, lasting for 2 weeks

Question 10

Publication of ‘To Secure These Rights’

Answer 10

1947

Question 11

NAACP picketed department stores in New Orleans

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

Executive order 9980

Answer 12

1948

Question 13

What was the Executive order 9980?

Answer 13

Outlawed discrimination in civil service

Question 14

Executive order 9981

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

What was the Executive order 9981?

Answer 15

Ended segregation in the army

Question 16

Truman’s inauguration ceremony in desegregated

Answer 16

1949

Question 17

Sweatt v. Painter

Answer 17

1950

Question 18

NAACP school boycotts

Answer 18

1951

Question 19

Committee on Government Contract Compliance established

Answer 19

1951

Question 20

Earl Warren appointed to the Supreme Court

Answer 20

1953

Question 21

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 21

1954

Question 22

Brown II

Answer 22

1955

Question 23

Lynching of Emmet Till

Answer 23

1955

Question 24

Beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 24

1955

Question 25

Browder v. Gayle

Answer 25

1956

Question 26

End of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 26

1956

Question 27

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) created

Answer 27

1957

Question 28

Civil Rights Act (first)

Answer 28

1957

Question 29

Little Rock Campaign

Answer 29

1957

Question 30

Cooper v. Aaron

Answer 30

1958

Question 31

Greensboro sit-ins

Answer 31

1960

Question 32

Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) founded

Answer 32

1960

Question 33

Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) founded

Answer 33

1960

Question 34

Civil Rights Act (second)

Answer 34

1960

Question 35

Boynton v. Virginia

Answer 35

1960

Question 36

Freedom Rides

Answer 36

1961

Question 37

National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) founded

Answer 37

1961

Question 38

Albany campaign begins

Answer 38

1961

Question 39

National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) founded

Answer 39

1962

Question 40

MAPA President, Edward Roybal, elected to the House of Representatives

Answer 40

1962

Question 41

Birmingham Campaign

Answer 41

1963

Question 42

March on Washington

Answer 42

1963

Question 43

Sioux occupation of Alcatraz

Answer 43

1964

Question 44

Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam and forms the Organisation of Afro-American Unity

Answer 44

1964

Question 45

Mississippi Freedom Summer

Answer 45

1964

Question 46

Civil Rights Act (third)

Answer 46

1964

Question 47

Malcolm X assassinated

Answer 47

1965

Question 48

Selma Campaign

Answer 48

1965

Question 49

President Johnson increases American involvement in Vietnam

Answer 49

1965

Question 50

Publication of the Moyniham Report

Answer 50

1965

Question 51

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Answer 51

1965

Question 52

SDS organise anti-war marches in Washington

Answer 52

1965

Question 53

Voting Rights Act

Answer 53

1965

Question 54

Launch of La Huelga

Answer 54

1965

Question 55

Higher Education Act

Answer 55

1965

Question 56

Freedom Cities movement begins

Answer 56

1966

Question 57

March Against Fear

Answer 57

1966

Question 58

Chicago Campaign

Answer 58

1966

Question 59

NFWA merged with the Filipino Union to create the United Farm Workers (UFW)

Answer 59

1966

Question 60

Black Panthers founded

Answer 60

1966

Question 61

SNCC expelled white members

Answer 61

1966

Question 62

Indian Resources Development Act

Answer 62

1967

Question 63

Chicano blowouts

Answer 63

1968

Question 64

Martin Luther King assassinated

Answer 64

1968

Question 65

Civil Rights Act (fourth)

Answer 65

1968

Question 66

Poor People's campaign

Answer 66

1968

Question 67

CORE expelled white members

Answer 67

1968

Question 68

Table Grape Boycott launched

Answer 68

1968

Question 69

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 69

1863

Question 70

Detroit Riots

Answer 70

1943

Question 71

Watts Riots in Los Angeles

Answer 71

1965

Question 72

What does NAACP stand for?

Answer 72

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 73

What does NUL stand for?

Answer 73

National Urban League

Question 74

What does CORE stand for?

Answer 74

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 75

What does SNCC stand for?

Answer 75

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 76

What does SCLC stand for?

Answer 76

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 77

What does OAAU stand for?

Answer 77

Organisation of Afro-American Unity

Question 78

Launch of Black Panther's 'survival programmes'

Answer 78

1968

Question 79

How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?

Answer 79

381 days