Approximately, how many black Americans were serving in the US armed forces by the end of World War Two?
50,000
750,000
2 million
Which US president signed Executive Order 9981, which ordered the US armed forces to desegregate?
President Franklin D Roosevelt
President Harry Truman
President Dwight D Eisenhower
In which year did the Supreme Court announce its judgement in the Brown v Topeka case?
1954
1956
1957
Which member of the Little Rock Nine is pictured in a famous photograph being shouted at by white racists?
Daisy Bates
Minnijean Brown
Elizabeth Eckford
What was the name of the 1956 Supreme Court case about discrimination on buses in Alabama?
Brown v Topeka
Browder v Gayle
Loving v Virginia
In the 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote a letter from jail after he had been arrested. Which march was this after?
The Birmingham march
The Washington march
The Selma march
Roughly how many people attended the March on Washington in 1963?
150,000
250,000
Which of these organisations was Malcolm X a member of?
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Nation of Islam
The Black Panthers
At which televised event did Tommie Smith and John Carlos make the Black Power salute?
1963 March on Washington
1965 Selma march
1968 Mexico Olympics
Which of these civil rights laws was passed after the events of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama?
1963 Equal Pay Act
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights Act