He began the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Famous boxer who joined the Nation of Islam and protested the Vietnam War.

Year that the Emancipation Proclamation took effect

Famous arts movement of the 1920s & 1930s based on African-American identity.

Leader of the 1980s' "Rainbow Coalition."

These were dedicated and courageous activists who sought desegregation of public facilities via bus rides through the South in the early 1960s.

She led people to freedom in the Underground Railroad and became a civil right leader as well.

US foreign war that led to major race riots near bases in segregated communities.

Hattie McDaniel won a Best Supporting Actress - the first African-American Oscar winner- for this 1939 film.

Shirley Chisholm ran for the Democratic party's nomination in this year.

Site of a famous incident of school desegregation involving nine young people and a violent mob in 1957.

This leader stood for economic empowerment within the confines of Jim Crow segregation.

During War World II, this symbol stood for victory over enemies abroad and racial discrimination at home.

Pioneering rap group from the Bronx that began hip hop culture in the 1970s.

This era included the African-American congressman, senators and state legislators.

Name of the cruise company established by Marcus Garvey and back nationalists of the 1920s.

Wealthy business woman who was the first self-made American female millionaire and a civil rights leader too.

In the Civil War, approximately this number of African-Americans served in the United States military.

State where writer Zora Neale Hurston grew up in and defined her early experiences.

Leader of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party who gave a memorable speech on the floor of the 1964 Democratic Convention.

S-N-C-C: what the letter stand for

She gave a singing performance in 1939 in Washington D.C. outside the Lincoln Memorial after being denied a performance at the Daughters of the American Revolution hall.

Signifiicant civil rights group that formed during World War II.

Name of Eddie Anderson's character on the widely-popular Jack Benny radio program of the 1930s & 1940s.

This Great Society legislation provided a strong measure of election fairness between 1965 & 2013.