| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | MOVEMENT $600: In 1965, 25,000 people joined the 50-mile march to Montgomery from this city, an iconic event in the civil rights movement Selma |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | "G"OING PLACES $1200: The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in this city is housed in a former Woolworth's, a site of a nonviolent protest Greensboro |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $2000: Among the class of 2024, this civil rights icon, who at age 6 made history when she integrated one of New Orleans' all white schools (Ruby) Bridges |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $5,200 (Daily Double): In 1948 Hubert Humphrey said the Democrats must "get out of the shadow of" these "rights" often used to counter civil rights states' rights |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | FROM THE NEWSPAPERS $600: 1963: this civil rights leader "survived the Normandy invasion but died of an assassin's bullet in Mississippi" (Medgar) Evers |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $2000: In 1972 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a founder of this organization's Women's Rights Project; full name, please the American Civil Liberties Union |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | GENIUS: MLK/X $1000: (Kelvin Harrison Jr. presents the clue.) Since they marched together, went to jail together & even had a pillow fight together right before Martin's death, MLK & this minister are referred to as the civil rights twins on the show Ralph Abernathy |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $3,200 (Daily Double): In August 1957 Strom Thurmond filibustered for over 24 hours railing against this, signed into law the next month the Civil Rights Act |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement (Emmett) Till |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HODGEPODGE $2000: "Deep in my heart, I do believe" this folk song has been called the anthem of the civil rights movement "We Shall Overcome" |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE $300: Many Harlem Renaissance writers contributed to "The Crisis", the official magazine of this civil rights organization the NAACP |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | MISSISSIPPI LEARNING $2000: The former home of this civil rights legend, slain in 1963, is now a national monument (Medgar) Evers |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | SENATORS $1600: Southern Democrat Richard Russell was one of the obstacles Lyndon Johnson overcame to sign this bill on July 2, 1964 the Civil Rights Act |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | AMERICANS IN PROTEST $200: It's the L-A in LULAC, a civil rights organization founded at Salon Obreros y Obreras in Corpus Christi in 1929 Latin American |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $3,500 (Daily Double): As a Supreme Court justice for more than 2 decades, he was nicknamed "Mr. Civil Rights" (Thurgood) Marshall |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $200: This civil rights leader said, "The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY $200: A new day dawned for civil rights in 1920 when the 19th one of these gave women the right to vote an amendment |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | MOVIES THAT MATTER $1600: This 2014 film about voting marches in Alabama shined a light on the contributions of Black women to the civil rights movement Selma |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | VIRGINNY & GEORGIA $200: Atlanta is home to the national historical park devoted to this reverend & civil rights crusader Martin Luther King (Jr.) |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | 1, 2 & 3 $1000: Writer Stoppard, comedian & civil rights activist Gregory & the present Duke of Sussex Tom, Dick & Harry |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A 1965 civil rights march started in Selma & ended 54 miles & 4 days later in this city, where MLK spoke on the steps of its capitol Montgomery |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $2000: (Questlove presents the clue.) Working backward in an amazing career--played with Fab 5 Freddy, performed civil rights-themed music & pioneered bop with Bird & Diz, every drummer owes a debt to this man Max Roach |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | MEMOIRS $200: The daughter of civil rights activists, this vice president penned "The Truths We Hold" Kamala Harris |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2000: "I Put a Spell on You": this "High Priestess of Soul" & civil rights activist Nina Simone |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | NATIONALLY MONUMENTAL $1600: The site of a former Alabama Greyhound depot is part of a monument to the 1960s civil rights crusaders known by this 2-word name the Freedom Riders |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | HEMINGWAY $4,600 (Daily Double): Hemingway bought his longtime home in Cuba from the sale of film rights to this novel set during the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $800: On July 17, 2020 America lost 2 civil rights icons, Rev. C.T. Vivian & this beloved congressman from Georgia John Lewis |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | PEOPLE IN POETRY $800: Nikki Giovanni's poem about this civil rights heroine ends, "In not being able to stand it. She sat back down" Rosa Parks |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $1600: Denzel Washington earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of this slain civil rights leader Malcolm X |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE 1960s $800: Broadening his message from civil rights, on March 2, 1965 Martin Luther King made his first public statement against this the Vietnam War |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | IN THE CITY $400: National Civil Rights Museum,
Graceland Memphis |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | LANDMARK LEGISLATION $5,000 (Daily Double): Congress passed the first of these acts in 1866; Congress passed another big one in 1964 the Civil Rights Act |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | 1860s AMERICA $600: This amendment that granted citizenship & civil rights to emancipated African Americans was ratified in 1868 the 14th Amendment |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | BUILDINGS IN HISTORY $400: Martin Luther King wrote his famous letter on the need for civil rights action from a jail in this city Birmingham |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | NOTABLE PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): On her death in 2005, this civil rights activist became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rosa Parks |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: Journalist & activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett helped found this civil rights organization in 1909 the NAACP |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | MUSEUMS $2000: This motel where Martin Luther King was assassinated honors his legacy as part of the National Civil Rights Museum the Lorraine Motel |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $400: In 2013 a statue of this civil rights icon, appearing as she did on the bus that day in 1955, was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol Parks |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $800: JFK praised this 1963 demonstration that drew about 250,000 participants & culminated at the Lincoln Memorial the March on Washington |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1200: As chief counsel for the NAACP, this future justice argued Brown V. Board of Education before the Supreme Court Marshall |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1600: One of the original "Big Four" civil rights groups, CORE, founded in 1942, stands for the Congress of this Racial Equality |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $2000: Seen here is this numerical group plus their NAACP adviser who integrated Arkansas' Central High School in 1957 the Little Rock Nine |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $200: A 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois helped lead to the founding of this civil rights organization the following year NAACP |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $1200: Res judicata, "a thing already judged", is the civil law version of this 2-word action banned by the Bill of Rights double jeopardy |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMOIRS $800: "Vernon Can Read!", the title of a memoir by this civil rights activist & advisor to Bill Clinton, was a quote from an old boss Vernon Jordan |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $600: In 2020 Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, Virginia was renamed for this late congressman & civil rights icon John Lewis |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | 2 MIDDLE NAMES $1000: Edward Burghardt were the middle names of this author & civil rights activist--the opening "W." was for William W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | RUTH BADER GINSBURG $600: As director of the Women's Rights Project for this "Union", Ruth argued cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BARBIE CELEBRATES ROLE MODELS $200: Mattel pays tribute to this woman, who helped spark the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her bus seat Rosa Parks |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | THE AMERICAN LEAGUE $3,000 (Daily Double): nul.org is the website for this organization that's been working for African Americans & civil rights since 1910 the National Urban League |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN $400: (Michelle Marsh presents from outside the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) Hi, I'm Michelle Marsh from ABC7: this Georgia congressman and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement began pushing for an African-American History Museum in the 1980s, and at the 2016 dedication said he felt like singing Mahalia Jackson's "How We Got Over" John Lewis |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $2,000 (Daily Double): "Mother of the modern day civil rights movement" Rosa Parks |
| #8237, aired 2020-09-15 | KNOW YOUR RIGHTS $200: A century before the same-named act of 1964, this act of 1866 guaranteed the rights of those formerly enslaved the Civil Rights Act |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | IT'S A FACT $2000: Following the path of a civil rights march, the shortest national historic trail, 54 miles, extends between these 2 Ala. cities Montgomery & Selma |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | GRAPHIC NOVELS $1600: The March trilogy about his experiences during the civil rights era, was co-written by this current congressman John Lewis |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | AROUND THE USA $600: Visit the CNN Center or the Center for Civil & Human Rights in this city Atlanta |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1200: (MSNBC's Steve Kornacki presents by a display monitor.) Upset over the inclusion of a civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform, Strom Thurmond split the party, capturing four Southern states with his Dixiecrat Party and nearly helping this Republican defeat Harry Truman Dewey |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | GAME "OVER" $2000: Sung by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger & others, this song based on a hymn became the anthem of the civil rights movement "We Shall Overcome" |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs $1600: 1965: "an act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes" the Voting Rights Act |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $400: In 1958 African-American activist Clennon King was sent to an asylum for trying to register at this state U. in Oxford University of Mississippi |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $800: The Congress of Racial Equality planned these 1961 trips to enforce desegregation of interstate transportation Freedom Rides |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $1200: In 1828 actor Thomas Rice began playing a blackface character named this, a term later used to describe racist laws Jim Crow |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $1600: Civil rights activism often includes VRDs, these "Drives" to help people participate in our democracy voter registration |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS $3,200 (Daily Double): This discriminatory practice comes from the colorful borders on maps around areas where minorities found it hard to get loans or credit redlining |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $600: Unarmed civil rights protesters were killed on Jan. 30, 1972, the "Sunday Bloody Sunday" that inspired that song by this group U2 |
| #8142, aired 2020-01-21 | THE USG $2,500 (Daily Double): The USCCR isn't a classic rock band but the United States Commission on these important CRs Civil Rights |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN $400: A civil rights leader: Jeffrey Wright in "Boycott" & Nelsan Ellis in "The Butler" Martin Luther King |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | THE NEW NEWS $600: An online "Project" with stories about criminal justice is named for this civil rights & Supreme Court icon Thurgood Marshall |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON $800: The organizers intended the march to bring attention to this bill, eventually signed by LBJ the Civil Rights Act |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: The international airport serving Jackson, Mississippi is named for this civil rights leader, assassinated in 1963 (Medgar) Evers |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | MUSEUM-PODGE $800: Wisconsin's National Railroad Museum has an exhibit on these porters: "from service to civil rights" Pullman car porters |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Cradle of the Confederacy" & "The Birthplace of Civil Rights" Montgomery, Alabama |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | THE END $2000: Of this racist system named for a minstrel routine:
The federal civil rights laws of the 1960s Jim Crow |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN $2000: This current congressman was already a civil rights leader in 1963 at age 23 John Lewis |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $1600: A May 1963 "Children's Crusade" helped civil rights as cops' treatment of kids in this Ala. city shocked the nation Birmingham |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | BETTER CALL PAUL $2000: A civil rights activist, actor & singer, he became famous with his version of "Ol' Man River" from "Show Boat" Paul Robeson |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE 1917 SILENT PARADE $1200: One of the first major civil rights demonstrations, the parade was organized by this rights org. founded in 1909 the NAACP |
| #7798, aired 2018-07-04 | "FIRE" WORKS $1000: James Baldwin gave voice to the emerging struggle for civil rights in this 1963 bestseller The Fire Next Time |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | WAY BACK IN THE '60s, MAN $400: This anti-discriminatory act of 1964 finally passed after a more than 2-month filibuster in the Senate the Civil Rights Act |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | HIPSTERY $1600: This 3-initial thinker sported a hip beard as a civil rights activist and NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | YOU KNOW MY NAME $1000: Compiled by his widow Myrlie, the autobiography of this slain civil rights leader was published 43 years after his death Medgar Evers |
| #7637, aired 2017-11-21 | TRUUUE $1200: Released on January 17, 2017, "My Life, My Love, My Legacy" is about this woman, a famed wife & civil rights icon Coretta Scott King |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | MUSEUMS $1000: The National Civil Rights Museum is located in this former Memphis motel the Lorraine Motel |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | U.S. HERSTORY $400: She joined hubby MLK Jr. in civil rights activism, taking part in the Montgomery bus boycott Coretta Scott King |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1200: The ADL for short, it fights anti-Semitism & other forms of bigotry & protects civil rights for all the Anti-Defamation League |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS $400: In 2013, President Obama unveiled a new statue of this "First Lady of Civil Rights" in Statuary Hall Rosa Parks |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS $800: This abolitionist & orator who was born into slavery in Maryland is often called the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement" (Frederick) Douglass |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS $1200: (I'm ABC News senior legal correspondent Sunny Hostin.) I would have loved to interview this civil rights hero & lawyer who helped end segregation in public schools before his historic appointment to the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS $1600: This hero of civil rights marches was first elected to represent Georgia's 5th Congressional District in 1986 John Lewis |
| #7446, aired 2017-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS $2000: In 2005, the Jackson International Airport was renamed in honor of this leader slain outside his house in 1963 (Medgar) Evers |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | 1866 $800: Putting him at odds with Congress, this U.S. president vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Andrew) Johnson |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | NO DISCRIMINATION $200: The sequence "race, color, religion, sex" (they said sex) "or national origin" is in this 1964 federal law the Civil Rights Act |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | NAME'S THE SAME $800: Schnabel of the art world &
civil rights leader Bond Julian |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | "AMERICAN" ORGANIZATION $400: Since 1920 it has worked to defend & preserve the individual rights that the Constitution & laws guarantee American Civil Liberties Union |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | "ON" TV $2000: We can't look away from this PBS series subtitled "America's Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1985" Eyes on the Prize |
| #7061, aired 2015-05-04 | MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU $800: 1961:
The start of the first freedom ride, organized by the civil rights group "CORE", the Congress of this Racial Equality |
| #7012, aired 2015-02-24 | BIOGRAPHY $200: "Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life & the civil rights movement Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | THE MARIAN KIND $1000: In 1973 lawyer & civil rights activist Marian Edelman created the CDF, short for this the Children's Defense Fund |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A TEXTBOOK CATEGORY $1,800 (Daily Double): "The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader" includes this 1963 letter that begins, "While confined here" MLK's letter from Birmingham jail |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN MEMORIAM 2014 $800: This beloved actress, civil rights activist & wife of Ossie Davis passed away at age 91 Ruby Dee |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | 1964 -- 50 YEARS AGO $200: In 2014, the National Archives put this act in its Records of Rights exhibit, in time for the act's 50th birthday on July 2nd Civil Rights Act |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM $1600: Alabama sheriff Jim Clark led the "Bloody Sunday" attack on civil rights protestors marching from this city to Montgomery Selma |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $400: He's the president seen here signing into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Lyndon Johnson |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | STAMPS $1200: You can see the quiet dignity of this civil rights icon who took a back seat to no one Rosa Parks |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | WHEN? IN '64 $1000: A June 2014 "American Experience" covers young people working for civil rights in this state in what was called Freedom Summer Mississippi |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | MISTER "E" CATEGORY $2000: Slain in Mississippi in 1963, this civil rights leader was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery Medgar Evers |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | RECENT HISTORY $400: (Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the clue.) The Court's legacy of civil rights cases includes Brown v. Board of Education & also Grutter v. Bollinger, a decision I wrote for the court allowing this race-conscious practice in law school admissions affirmative action |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | WOMEN OF CHINESE DESCENT $2000: This architect & sculptor designed the Civil Rights Memorial as well as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Maya Lin |
| #6781, aired 2014-02-24 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later Woolworth's |
| #6758, aired 2014-01-22 | CLEAN UP YOUR ACT $200: July 2, 2014 is the 50th anniversary of LBJ signing a milestone in equality:
The ____ ____ Act the Civil Rights Act |
| #6701, aired 2013-11-04 | THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES $2000: Seen here, Freedom & Peace Party, 1968
(a civil rights activist) Dick Gregory |
| #6667, aired 2013-09-17 | CONSTITUTION DAY $400: When it comes to civil rights, the 14th Amendment gets the job done, granting due process & this "of the laws" equal protection |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | AUTHOR-IZED BIOGRAPHIES $200: She learned Chinese from her tutor Mr. Kung & went on to win the 1938 Nobel Prize & be active in civil rights Pearl Buck |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | WHERE IS IT? $1000: The city:
the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IT WAS THE '60s $400: This Civil Rights leader convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on "Star Trek", citing her as a positive inspiration Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | A STUDENT OF HISTORY $1600: Sacha Baron Cohen wrote a college thesis on the role of Jews in this 1960s movement in the U.S. South the civil rights movement |
| #6513, aired 2013-01-02 | BRITANNICA BIOS: "A" $2000: "Pastor and civil rights leader who was Martin Luther King's chief aide and closest associate" Ralph Abernathy |
| #6489, aired 2012-11-29 | IT'S "OVER"! $1200: One of the anthems of the civil rights movement was "We Shall" do this overcome |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | WHAT HAPPENED? $400: July 2, 1964:
This landmark anti-discrimination act becomes law the Civil Rights Act |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: The Civil Rights Act & the Watts Riots happened during this decade of hope & tragedy the '60s |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | ALSO A MUSICAL TERM $800: An organized social cause, like the Civil Rights one a movement |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $400: A memorial to this civil rights leader on the National Mall was dedicated in October 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #6341, aired 2012-03-26 | NONFICTION $400: "Hellhound on His Trail" tells of "The Stalking of" this civil rights leader & "the International Hunt for His Assassin" Martin Luther King |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2000: At a Feb. 1957 meeting a civil rights group chose this 3-word name; "Christian" was added later in the year Southern Leadership Conference |
| #6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $600: This act of 1964 established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the Civil Rights Act |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | A MAN: JORDAN $2000: This Atlanta-born civil rights leader was a key adviser to President Clinton Vernon Jordan |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | WHAT'S ON "TAP"? $400: In 2006 a civil rights group sued the NSA over its program to allow this without a warrant wiretapping |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $200: 8 years after Jackie Robinson broke in with the Dodgers, Elston Howard became the first black player on this A.L. rival the (New York) Yankees |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $600: In 1997 Violet Palmer took the court as the NBA's first female one of these a referee |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $800: Led by this "Big O" of basketball, Crispus Attucks High in 1955 won the USA's first state title for an all-black team Oscar Robertson |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $1000: When her family bought this ballclub from the Tribune Co., Laura Ricketts became MLB's first openly gay owner the (Chicago) Cubs |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | SPORTS & CIVIL RIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): This clause in a law signed June 23, 1972 changed women's college athletics forever Title IX |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: The Walter P. Reuther library at Wayne State University in Detroit is devoted to this movement labor |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS $1000: In 2011 this Georgia congressman, who was beaten on a 1965 civil rights march, received the Medal of Freedom John Lewis |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | AUTHORS $1000: His "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" spans 100 years from the Civil War to the civil rights movement Ernest J. Gaines |
| #6155, aired 2011-05-20 | THE ROLE IN COMMON $800: James Earl Jones,
Denzel Washington,
Mario Van Peebles:
A Civil Rights activist Malcolm X |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: Daisy Gatson Bates Day in this state celebrates a civil rights activist who helped integrate Little Rock's schools Arkansas |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Civil rights leader Jesse & Laker leader Phil Jackson |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $1000: Julian Bond was the first president of this "Law Center" that works for civil rights & tolerance education the Southern Poverty Law Center |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | NAME-RO UNO $1600: This female folk singer who died in 2008 was called the "voice of the civil rights movement" Odetta |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1600: Lev Rubin in this Soviet dissident's "The First Circle" was based on 1960s Russian civil rights figure Lev Kopelev Solzhenitsyn |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | "FREE" PLAY $400: During the civil rights struggle, they took buses throughout the South to protest segregation the Freedom Riders |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | THE NAACP SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $2000: This civil rights leader won in 1963, the year of his murder; his wife Myrlie won in '98 (Medgar) Evers |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $400: Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest led to a yearlong bus boycott in this Alabama city Montgomery |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $800: In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime Woolworth's |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $1200: Martin Luther King's purpose in traveling to this city in March 1968 was to support striking sanitation workers Memphis |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $1600: James Meredith, the first black student at the University of this state, was shot & wounded there in June 1966 Mississippi |
| #5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $2000: He was the lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case Thurgood Marshall |
| #5828, aired 2010-01-06 | WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON $1200: After the Civil War Garrison kept defending rights, of Blacks, women & also of Asian immigrants, mainly from this country China |
| #5826, aired 2010-01-04 | STAMP COLLECTING $1600: From the Latin for "remind", it's a stamp, like the civil rights one seen here, issued to honor a person, place or event a commemorative stamp |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEWSEUM $2000: (Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) A key moment in the Civil Rights era was a sit-in protest after four black students were refused service at an all-white F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in this North Carolina city Greensboro, North Carolina |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | TEEN LIT $200: Set in this decade, Kathryn Stockett's "The Help" follows a young woman during the civil rights movement the '60s |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | FOUNDERS $1000: To support the Bill of Rights, Roger Baldwin co-founded this group in NYC in 1920 the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union) |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | MIDDLE NAMES $800: Colin Powell & a slain civil rights leader share this middle name Luther |
| #5556, aired 2008-11-03 | YOU, THE VOTER $400: The Supreme Court said of this 1965 law, "Millions of non-white Americans will now be able to participate..." the Voting Rights Act |
| #5495, aired 2008-06-27 | THE 5-YEAR PLAN $400: In 2005 an ex-Klan member was found guilty in the deaths 41 years before of 3 civil rights workers in this state Mississippi |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | STATE FACTS $1000: A bus boycott in this state in 1955 helped launch the civil rights movement Alabama |
| #5343, aired 2007-11-28 | THE LBJ LIBRARY & MUSEUM $1,400 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of LBJ signing a bill.) In 1964, in one of his greatest triumphs, Lyndon Johnson signed this act that ended legal discrimination in the United States Civil Rights Act |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | HEY, MR.! $800: Known as "Mr. Civil Rights", he served as chief counsel of the NAACP prior to taking a seat on the Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | A STRONG CONSTITUTION $600: The first 10 amendments, called this, establish every citizen's basic civil liberties the Bill of Rights |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | PROMENADE DATES $200: It's the city where this civil rights march took place in August of 1963 Washington, D.C. |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Kelly Ingram Park.) Defying the notorious "Bull" Connor, thousands came to this city's Kelly Ingram Park to demonstrate for civil rights in May 1963 Birmingham |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | FOR YOUR RIGHT $800: Venceremos, a rebel radio station in El Salvador, translates to this title of a '60s civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | A PARADE OF THE WORST DICTATORS $1200: No. 2 is this man of North Korea, which had the worst score on political rights & civil liberties for 34 straight years Kim Jong-il |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | 1966 $800: August 5:
This man gets hit in the head by a rock while leading a civil rights march in Chicago Martin Luther King |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | GOVERNORS $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from atop the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL.) When civil rights marchers faced off against the mounted police in 1965 here on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, this man was Alabama's governor George Wallace |
| #4983, aired 2006-04-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.) "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here" is a line from this document written from confinement in April 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail" |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | FUN WITH DICK & JANE $600: See Dick. See Dick fight for civil rights. Right on, Dick. Right on Dick Gregory |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) In his Stride Toward Freedom, he organized many Civil Rights mass meetings held here at the 16th Street Baptist Church Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Birmingham, AL in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.) It took three tries, but finally, several thousand crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 on a Civil Rights march from Selma to this state capital Montgomery |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from inside the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL.) Civil Rights activists fought segregation permitted by this 3-word slogan in an 1896 Supreme Court decision "separate but equal" |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL.) Though Rosa Parks made her living as a seamstress, she had also served as secretary of a branch of this organization the NAACP |
| #4941, aired 2006-02-20 | THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, AL.) Activist Bayard Rustin said when the Supreme Court announced the decision in this case, things began to move into a new era of activism & confrontation Brown v. Board of Education |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $200: In 1866 Mary Ellen Pleasant, "Mother of Civil Rights in California", sued & won after being thrown off this city's streetcar San Francisco |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $400: Now a congressman, John Lewis was a featured speaker at this August 1963 event when he was just 23 the March on Washington |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $600 (Daily Double): In 1963 George Olden became the first black designer of a U.S. stamp, one issued for the centennial of this event the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $600: As counsel to this organization, Charles Houston devised the legal strategy that led to school desegregation NAACP |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Pentagon.) The service of these aviators honored here was a factor in leading President Truman to desegregate the military the Tuskegee Airmen |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Rosa Parks helped make this city "The Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement" Montgomery |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | CAROLINIANS ON MY MIND $1600: This fiery civil rights leader seen here hails from Greenville, South Carolina Jesse Jackson |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $1600: In 1989 Julian Bond dedicated a civil rights memorial designed by Maya Lin in this Southern state capital Montgomery |
| #4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE NAACP $2000: (Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) In 1995 this widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers became the first woman to head the NAACP Myrlie Evers(-Williams) |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | ASSASSINS $600: In 1994, 31 years after the crime, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murdering this Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $800: 1989:
A minister, politician & civil rights leader Jesse Jackson |
| #4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BLACK HISTORY MONTH $800: Kweisi Mfume left the House of Representatives to head this civil rights organization in February 1996 the NAACP |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | AWARDS $800: (Hi, I'm Tavis Smiley.) I led a successful campaign to have the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to this woman, a civil rights icon (Rosa) Parks |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | I PUT YOU ON THE MAP $1600: Originally named for an obscure VP, this county where Seattle sits later declared itself named for a civil rights leader King County |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $800: King donated the money he received for winning this international award in December 1964 to civil rights causes the Nobel Peace Prize |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | MUSEUMS $400: The National Civil Rights Museum has an exhibit about the enrollment of James Meredith at this school in 1962 (the University of) Mississippi |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $1000: A '60s civil rights leader:
"By Any Means Necessary" Malcolm X |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Memphis, Tennessee) The National Civil Rights Museum is built on the site of the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King was assassinated in this year 1968 |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) From 1943 to 1956, Rosa Parks was secretary of her local chapter of this organization the NAACP |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM $600: (Sarah) This exhibit recreates the famous series of these protest actions that took place in 1960 in North Carolina sit-ins |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM $800: (Cheryl) The Greyhound bus represents these riders who bravely tried to desegregate bus stations in 1961 the Freedom Riders |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | THE NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM $1000: (Sarah) The "Voices of Struggle" Gallery includes this woman, who told her passengers, "You'll be free or die" Harriet Tubman |
| #4485, aired 2004-02-20 | NATIONAL SITES $1600: Commemorating a 1965 civil rights march is the Selma to this city National Historic Trail in Alabama Montgomery |
| #4465, aired 2004-01-23 | BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $800: A soldier during WWII, this civil rights leader, murdered in Mississippi in 1963, is buried at Arlington (Medgar) Evers |
| #4285, aired 2003-03-28 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: Founded in 1933, the alliance of these Chinese businesses became a major NYC civil rights group laundries |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $400: The 1957 Civil Rights Act set up a Civil Rights division in this cabinet department Justice |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew singing at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta; Alex gives the clue) Based on a gospel song, it became an anthem of the civil rights movement "We Shall Overcome" |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1200: The court case Missouri ex rel. Gaines was part of the NAACP's long challenge to segregation in these institutions schools |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1600: On the 4th of July in 1965, 2 years after "I Have a Dream", Martin Luther King preached on this "dream" the American dream |
| #4236, aired 2003-01-20 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $2000: When shot in 1963, Medgar Evers was carrying shirts with the slogan this character, a segregation symbol, "Must Go" Jim Crow |
| #4157, aired 2002-10-01 | ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS $800: Benjamin L. Hooks, a lawyer & civil rights leader, was executive director of this organization from 1977 to 1993 NAACP |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | STATE CAPITALS $400: This Alabama capital is home to the Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin Montgomery |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | THE WARD ROOM $2,000 (Daily Double): After writing her famous Civil War hymn, she was active in the women's rights movement Julia Ward Howe |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | THE GODFATHER $200: A deal was cut with the Italian-American Civil Rights League that this term would not be spoken in the film Mafia |
| #4010, aired 2002-01-25 | '90s MOVIES $800: In 1992 director Spike Lee brought the life of this civil rights leader to the big screen Malcolm X |
| #3974, aired 2001-12-06 | "PARK"ER $600: She's the civil rights pioneer seen here Rosa Parks |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | 4-LETTER ORGANIZATIONS $200: A civil rights group founded in 1942, or where an apple's seeds are CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | PRISONERS' SENTENCES $400: This civil rights leader penned his "Letter From the Birmingham Jail" on April 16, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #3788, aired 2001-02-07 | AL OR GEORGE $800: In 1997 this charismatic minister & civil rights leader made a bid to become mayor of New York City Al Sharpton |
| #3781, aired 2001-01-29 | MOVIE PORTRAYALS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Yolanda King. My father was Martin Luther King, Jr.) In the 1996 movie "Ghosts of Mississippi", I played Reena, the daughter of this civil rights leader killed in 1963 Medgar Evers |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | HISTORIC HEROES $1000: 1 of the 3 civil rights workers murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi in June 1964 (1 of) James Chaney, Andrew Goodman & Michael Schwerner |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: This influential minister & civil rights pioneer won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1960s Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #3645, aired 2000-06-09 | NOTABLE BLACK WOMEN $200: The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement", she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993 Rosa Parks |
| #3595, aired 2000-03-31 | REBELS WITH A CAUSE $400: This civil rights group was organized in Oakland in 1966 by Huey Newton & Bobby Seale Black Panthers |
| #3576, aired 2000-03-06 | 20th CENTURY USA $200: In 1984 this civil rights leader gained the release of 22 Americans & 26 Cubans detained in Cuban prisons Rev. Jesse Jackson |
| #3492, aired 1999-11-09 | MUSEUMS $400: The National Civil Rights Museum is located on the Memphis site where he was assassinated in 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #3478, aired 1999-10-20 | HOWDY, "BUSTER" $400: In 1964 Russell Long & other senators led one that lasted a record 74 days against a civil rights bill a filibuster |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | "F" WORDS $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1957 Strom Thurmond engaged in one for 24 hours & 18 minutes, speaking against a civil rights bill Filibuster |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | "A"BBREVIATIONS $400: Rights defenders:
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | MOV"ING" PICTURES $300: 1988 film based on the 1964 disappearance of 3 civil rights workers in the South Mississippi Burning |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MAIN STREET U.S.A. $200: You can ride this city's Main St. trolley across Beale St. en route to the National Civil Rights Museum Memphis |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. $200: King is seen here at his March, 1964 meeting with this civil rights leader Malcolm X |
| #3300, aired 1999-01-01 | RESOLUTIONS $800 (Daily Double): Senators Wayne Morse & Ernest Gruening cast the only dissenting votes against this August 7, 1964 resolution the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | SWEET GOSPEL MUSIC $600: A 1987 PBS series about the civil rights movement took its title from the gospel song "Keep Your Eyes On" this The Prize |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | WISCON-SIN $400: On August 9, 1966 the Milwaukee HQ of this venerable civil rights organization was bombed the NAACP |
| #3147, aired 1998-04-14 | MIDDLE NAMES $800: Middle name of civil rights leader Leroy Cleaver Eldridge |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: The 1866 Civil Rights Act was passed over this president's veto Johnson |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $200: In 1965 Congress barred several states from requiring that voters be able to do this Read |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $400: He led efforts to desegregate Jackson, Mississippi & was killed there June 12, 1963 Medgar Evers |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $600: In 1965, after being assaulted in this Alabama city, Martin Luther King led a march from there to Montgomery Selma |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1000: As head of the SNCC, Stokely Carmichael rejected this doctrine that put the "N" in the group's name Non-violence (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT $1,200 (Daily Double): This league was founded in 1910, largely to help black migrants to New York City The Urban League |
| #2913, aired 1997-04-09 | NAMES OF THE '60s $500: He donated his 1964 Nobel Prize money, over $54,000, to the civil rights movement Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSEUMS $500: The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has an exhibit on this city's 1955 bus boycott Montgomery, Alabama |
| #2901, aired 1997-03-24 | "OVER" & "OUT" $400: Pete Seeger & others added lyrics to the civil rights song "We Shall" do this "Overcome" |
| #2868, aired 1997-02-05 | BLACK AMERICA $400 (Daily Double): The modern civil rights movement began in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
| #2856, aired 1997-01-20 | MARTIN LUTHER KING $600: In December 1964 King conferred with this man, who was spying on him, about the FBI's role in civil rights J. Edgar Hoover |
| #2766, aired 1996-09-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: "Meridian" is an acclaimed novel about the civil rights movement by this author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | STREETS $100: On Jan. 15, 1983 Santa Barbara Ave. in L.A. was renamed for this slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | BLACK AMERICA $200: 1995 marked the 30th anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to this Alabama city Montgomery |
| #2721, aired 1996-06-03 | ACTIVISTS $600: This Black comedian & civil rights activist wrote a "Political Primer" in 1971 Dick Gregory |
| #2706, aired 1996-05-13 | THE SUPREME COURT $600: This Bush appointee was once Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education Clarence Thomas |
| #2660, aired 1996-03-08 | BLACK AMERICA $400: It's the largest & one of the most influential civil rights groups in America The NAACP |
| #2626, aired 1996-01-22 | ORGANIZATIONS $600: In 1910 lawyer Moorfield Storey became the first president of this oldest U.S. civil rights organization the NAACP |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | THE SUPREME COURT $400: Before Bush appointed him to the court, he was Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights (Clarence) Thomas |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: 2 months before his own death, Robert Kennedy attended the funeral of this slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King |
| #2606, aired 1995-12-25 | SOUTHERN ENGLISH $100: Some Southern terms for this event are "The War for Southern Rights" & "The Second American Revolution" the Civil War |
| #2593, aired 1995-12-06 | BLACK AMERICA $200: The book "The Black 100" ranks this civil rights leader as the most influential African-American who ever lived Dr. Martin Luther King |
| #2565, aired 1995-10-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $100: In 1957 Ralph Abernathy & this civil rights leader founded the SCLC Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | U.S. MUSEUMS $200: The National Civil Rights Museum is housed at the Memphis motel where he was slain in 1968 Martin Luther King |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | BIRTHPLACES $1000: Civil rights leader Rosa Parks was born in this city that's also associated with Booker T. Washington Tuskegee |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | MARTINS $100: This civil rights leader entered Morehouse College in Atlanta at age 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2481, aired 1995-05-22 | PHILOSOPHERS $800: In his 1762 treatise "The Social Contract", this Swiss-French philosopher made a case for civil rights Rousseau |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: In 1990 this woman who sparked the civil rights movement was honored in Washington on her 77th birthday (Rosa) Parks |
| #2474, aired 1995-05-11 | IN THE NEWS $300: Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, was elected head of this org. NAACP |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | ALABAMY BOUND $600: The Civil Rights Memorial in this city honors 40 people who lost their lives there between 1954 & 1968 Montgomery |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | NICKNAMES $500: "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" Rosa Parks |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: In 1993 a court upheld Boston University's claim to 83.000 of this civil rights leader's papers Martin Luther King |
| #2376, aired 1994-12-26 | 1920 $1000: Helen Keller was one of the people who founded this constitutional rights organization in 1920 the American Civil Liberties Union |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | BLACK AMERICA $100: Ralph Bunche was the first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize & this civil rights leader was second Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1994 Byron de la Beckwith received a life sentence for the 1963 murder of this Miss. civil rights leader Medgar Evers |
| #2264, aired 1994-06-09 | BLACK AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): A major Detroit thoroughfare is named for this woman who sparked the civil rights movement in 1955 Rosa Parks |
| #2225, aired 1994-04-15 | BLACK AMERICA $100: In January 1993, for the first time, all 50 states observed the birthday of this slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #2153, aired 1994-01-05 | GROUPS & ASSOCIATIONS $600: In 1909 white liberals joined with the Niagara Movement to found this civil rights organization the NAACP |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | RECENT HISTORY $200: In 1992 Arizona voters approved a January state holiday to honor this late civil rights leader Martin Luther King |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | BLACK AMERICA $400: Charles Evers, brother of this civil rights leader, was mayor of Fayette, Miss. from 1969-1981 Medgar Evers |
| #2033, aired 1993-06-09 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1000: In 1598 Henri IV of France issued an edict from this city that gave Protestants the same civil rights as Catholics Nantes |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | BLACK AMERICA $500: In 1955 she helped launch the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus Rosa Parks |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | REPUBLICANS $1000: Though a conservative, this Illinois senator of the '50s & '60s supported LBJ on civil rights (Everett) Dirksen |
| #1994, aired 1993-04-15 | SLOGANS & MOTTOES $200: A well-known civil rights slogan was "one man, one" this vote |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CIVIL RIGHTS $200: It basically means "to separate from the flock", the Latin for flock being "grex" segregate |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CIVIL RIGHTS $400: In 1762 Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in" these chains |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CIVIL RIGHTS $600: Present when King was shot in 1968, he got some 7 million votes in the 1988 primaries Jesse Jackson |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CIVIL RIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Gandhi dubbed them the Harijan, children of God, the name they're now known by the untouchables |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | CIVIL RIGHTS $1000: In 1896 Syngman Rhee joined a group that fought for civil rights in this country he later ruled Korea |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | AWARDS $400: For his civil rights work, this retired Supreme Court justice was recently awarded a Liberty Medal Thurgood Marshall |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | NICKNAMES $500: "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" Rosa Parks |
| #1861, aired 1992-10-12 | ALABAMA $200: In 1989, a civil rights memorial designed by Maya Lin was completed in this capital city Montgomery |
| #1796, aired 1992-05-25 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $200: In 1982 Santa Barbara Ave. in Los Angeles was renamed to honor this slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King |
| #1785, aired 1992-05-08 | BLACK HISTORY $400: In 1909 the Niagara Movement helped form this large civil rights organization NAACP |
| #1773, aired 1992-04-22 | FAMOUS WOMEN $800: This playwright's father, Carl Hansberry, won a civil rights case in the Supreme Court Lorraine Hansberry |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | BLACK AMERICA $1,500 (Daily Double): A sculpture of this seamstress & civil rights heroine was unveiled recently at the Smithsonian Rosa Parks |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | AWARDS $500: This civil rights organization presented its 23rd annual Image Awards on December 2, 1990 the NAACP |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: On the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, W.E.B. Dubois called for the founding of this civil rights organization the NAACP |
| #1545, aired 1991-04-26 | MODERN HISTORY $200: He donated the money from his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize to the civil rights movement Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #1460, aired 1990-12-28 | CALL ME MISTER $800: For his work as NAACP attorney this future Supreme Court justice earned the title "Mr. Civil Rights" Thurgood Marshall |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The State's Rights Democrats who opposed their party's civil rights plank in 1948 were known as this the Dixiecrats |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | "SOUTHERN" $400: Martin Luther King Jr. founded this civil rights group in 1957 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #1336, aired 1990-05-28 | IN THE NEWS $200: Maya Lin, the architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, designed one for this movement in Montgomery, Al. the civil rights movement |
| #1323, aired 1990-05-09 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $200: The tomb of this civil rights leader lies next to the Ebenezer Baptist churchyard on Auburn Ave. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #1245, aired 1990-01-19 | BEST SELLERS $400: "Parting the Waters" by Taylor Branch is a history of this social movement in America Civil Rights Movement |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: The 1st sit-ins of the '60s civil rights movement were at lunch counters in this "colorful" N.C. city Greensboro |
| #1174, aired 1989-10-12 | THE SUPREME COURT $800: In 1920 future justice F. Frankfurter helped found this organization that champions civil rights ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) |
| #917, aired 1988-09-06 | COUNTRY CROONERS $200: Willie Nelson helped this Black singer's career by using him in shows during the civil rights era Charley Pride |
| #889, aired 1988-06-16 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $300: In 1962, this att'y general sent Congress a civil rights bill aimed at curbing police brutality Robert Kennedy |
| #694, aired 1987-09-17 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Late civil rights leader who won a 1970 Grammy for his record "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam" Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #645, aired 1987-05-29 | JUNE $800: He was arrested in London June 8, 1968 for the murder of a U.S. civil rights leader James Earl Ray |
| #306, aired 1985-11-11 | "SOUTH" $1000: Helping to found it in 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. headed this civil rights group until his death Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| #297, aired 1985-10-29 | INITIALS $300: America's oldest civil rights organization, the N.A.A.C.P. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| #181, aired 1985-05-20 | 1964 $400: Letters in name of militant civil rights group "CORE" stood for this Congress of Racial Equality |
| #69, aired 1984-12-13 | CIVIL RIGHTS $200: He was the husband of Coretta Scott Martin Luther King Jr. |
| #69, aired 1984-12-13 | CIVIL RIGHTS $400: Named for hair color & a black radical group, they fight for seniors' rights the Gray Panthers |
| #69, aired 1984-12-13 | CIVIL RIGHTS $600: Group which lost members by defending rights of Am. Nazis to march in Skokie, Ill. the American Civil Liberties Union (the ACLU) |
| #69, aired 1984-12-13 | CIVIL RIGHTS $800: Its deadline for passage ran out June 30,1982 the E.R.A. (the Equal Rights Amendment) |
| #69, aired 1984-12-13 | CIVIL RIGHTS $1000: Nobel-Prize winning organization, they oppose political imprisonment & torture Amnesty International |
