Civil Rights Key Dates

Question 1

Brown V. Board of Education

Answer 1

1954
-Ruled segregated schooling = unequal, Brown couldn’t go to nearby school, so had to AA school far away = dangerous to get to

Question 2

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 2

1955-56

-Montgomery AAs had had enough of bus segregation

Question 3

Little Rock Arkansas

Answer 3

1957

• Integration of schools: state national guards sent to stop this
• Eisenhower stepped in = sen troops to protect AA students

Question 4

Sit Ins, North Carolina

Answer 4

1960

-AA students sat on ‘white only’ lunch counters, and refused to move this spread throughout the south

Question 5

Freedom Rides

Answer 5

1961

-Integrated group rode bus around the south being attacked by white supremacists

Question 6

Birmingham Protest

Answer 6

1963

-King’s first great triumph, nationwide attention from police attacking protesters

Question 7

March On Washington

Answer 7

1963

-March w/ collaboration of the major civil rights leaders to encourage passage of civil rights bill

Question 8

Kennedy proposes Civil Rights Act

Answer 8

1963

Question 9

Mississippi Freedom Summer

Answer 9

1964

• To educate and register voters as majority = illiterate
• Northern mostly white volunteers came to the south to teach AAs

Question 10

Civil Rights Act

Answer 10

1964
-Prohibitted discrimination in public places, furthered school desegregation, federal government got more powers to end southern de cure segregation and established Equal Employment Commission

Question 11

Voting Rights Act

Answer 11

1965

-Federally appointed registrars appointed to stop registration tests

Question 12

Chicago Campaign

Answer 12

1966

-MLK moved to ghetto to focus on improving them

Question 13

Meredith March

Answer 13

1966
-March by college student to encourage voting, he = attacked and injured, but major civil rights organisations joined in = divisions between them and infighting

Question 14

Increase in Black Power

Answer 14

1966

Question 15

Black Panther Party established

Answer 15

1966

• Founded by Newton and Seale, had 10 point programme to better AAs
• Were an AA militia group to protect them

Question 16

Race riots in Newark and Detroit

Answer 16

1967

• 2 major uprisings
• Troops deployed
• Underlying cause = poverty/ deprivation

Question 17

Poor People’s Campaign

Answer 17

1968

-March for sanitation workers rights, which King joined and was assassinated at

Question 18

MLK’s assassination

Answer 18

1968