Dates

Question 0

1870

Answer 0

Fifteenth Amendment

Question 1

1868

Answer 1

Fourteenth Amendment

Question 2

1890s

Answer 2

Southern States introduce Jim Crow laws

Question 3

1896

Answer 3

Plessy v Ferguson

Question 4

1944

Answer 4

Smith v Allwright

Question 5

1945

Answer 5

African American improvement after WWII

Question 6

1946

Answer 6

Morgan v Virginia

Question 7

1947

Answer 7

• Journey of Reconciliation
• To Secure These Rights
• NAACP picketed department stores in New Orleans
• End of the CNO voter registration campaign in Arkansas

Question 8

1948

Answer 8

• Executive order 9800 outlawed racial discrimination in the civil service
• Executive order 9981 ended segregation in the army

Question 9

1949

Answer 9

Truman’s inauguration ceremony is desegregated

Question 10

1950

Answer 10

• Sweatt v Painter

- Canteen at Washington Airport is desegregated

Question 11

1951

Answer 11

• NAACP school boycotts

- Committee on Government Contract Compliance established

Question 12

1953

Answer 12

• UDL bus boycott in Louisiana

- Earl Warren appointed to the Supreme Court

Question 13

1954

Answer 13

Brown v Board of Education

Question 14

1955

Answer 14

• Brown II
• Lynching of Emmett Till
• Beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 15

1956

Answer 15

• Browder v Gayle

- End of Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 16

1957

Answer 16

• SCLC created
• Civil Rights Act
• Little Rock Campaign

Question 17

1958

Answer 17

Cooper v Aaron

Question 18

1960

Answer 18

• Greensboro sit-ins
• SNCC founded
• MAPA founded
• Boynton v Virginia

Question 19

1961

Answer 19

• Freedom Rides
• NIYC founded
• Albany campaign begins

Question 20

1962

Answer 20

• NFWA founded

- MAPA president, Edward Roybal, elected to the House of Representatives

Question 21

1963

Answer 21

• Birmingham Campaign

- March on Washington

Question 22

1964

Answer 22

• Sioux occupation of Alcatraz
• Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam & forms the OAAU
• Mississippi Freedom Summer
• Civil Rights Act

Question 23

1965

Answer 23

• Malcolm X assassinated
• Selma campaign
• President Johnson increases American involvement in Vietnam
• Publication of Moynihan Report
• Elementary & Secondary Education Act
• SDS organise anti-war marches in Washington D.C.
• Voting Rights Act
• Launch of ¡La Huelga!
• Higher Education Act

Question 24

1966

Answer 24

• Freedom Cities Movement begins
• César Chávez’s Peregrinación (pilgrimage)
• March Against Fear
• Chicago Campaign
• NFWA merged with the Filipino Union to create the UFW
• Black Panthers founded
• The Diggers created an anarchist commune in San Francisco
• SNCC expelled white members

Question 25

1967

Answer 25

Indian Resources Development Act

Question 26

1968

Answer 26

• Memphis Sanitation Worker’s strike
• Chicano blowouts
• Martin Luther King assassinated
• Civil Rights Act
• Poor People’s Campaign
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v Daniel
• CORE expelled white members
• Table Grape Boycott launched

Question 27

1969

Answer 27

Weeks v Southern Bell