Dates

Question 1

Plessy vs Ferguson Court case: ‘separate but equal’ ruling

Answer 1

1896

Question 2

Segregation and Jim Crow Laws

Answer 2

1950s

Question 3

Brown vs Topeka case: segregated schools were unconstitutional

Answer 3

1954

Question 4

Murder of Emmett Till
Beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks arrested)

Answer 4

1955

Question 5

Montgomery Bus Boycott
Browder vs Gayle: desegregate buses

Answer 5

1956

Question 6

Little Rock 9
1957 Civil Rights Act

Answer 6

1957

First federal civil rights law passed by US Congress since 1875

First federal civil rights law passed by US Congress since 1875

Question 7

Greensboro Sit-in

At Woolworths

Answer 7

1960

Question 8

Freedom Riders

Answer 8

1961

Question 9

James Meredith Case

Answer 9

1962

Admission to University of Mississippi despite initial contest
First black student to attend the university

Question 10

Campaign C: Birmigham
March on Washington
Black Power movement starts

Answer 10

1963

Question 11

Selma (both marches)
1965 Voting Rights Act
Malcolm X mudered

Answer 11

1965

Question 11

Freedom Summer
Mississippi Murders
1964 Civil Rights Act
Riots start

Answer 11

1964

Question 12

Black Panthers set up
March Against Fear
King’s campaign in North

Answer 12

1966

Question 13

Mexico Olympics
Kerner Report
Martin Luther King shot

Answer 13

1968

Question 14

1970 Voting Rights Act

Answer 14

1970

Banned literacy tests