Civil Rights Era Bingo Cards

Civil Rights Movement Bingo Card

These cards are about Civil Rights Movement. This list features some of the major milestones that took place in the modern civil rights movement beginning in 1954. It also includes names of important people involved in the movement. These include words like Black Panthers, James Meredith, Martin Luther King, Jr., Second Reconstruction, and desegregation.

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Words List For Civil Rights Movement Bingo Cards

Black Panthers Bloody Sunday Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Greensboro sit-ins Jackie Robinson
James Meredith Jim Crow laws John F. Kennedy Little Rock Nine Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr. Medgar Evers Montgomery bus boycott NAACP Rosa Parks
Second Reconstruction The Civil Rights Act of 1969 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Thurgood Marshall Watts riots
desegregation discrimination freedom riders segregation separate but equal



How To Play Civil Rights Era Bingo

  1. Print out your free Civil Rights Movement bingo boards, or make custom ones with Bingo Card Creator. Click here to get started.
  2. Give one card to each player.
  3. Call off words randomly, for example by using a call list. You can either just say a word, like "Montgomery bus boycott", or you can make up a more involved clue involving Montgomery bus boycott.
  4. When a word is called, each player should find it and mark it.
  5. The first player(s) to clear five words in any direction (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) wins a small prize.

Notes: How long a bingo game lasts depends on what pace you read the clues at and how many players you have. If you read faster, such as for older or more experienced students, or if you have more players, the game tends to end more quickly. In general, I suggest allocating between twenty and thirty minutes to a bingo game. Since they can potentially end as early as the fourth word called, though that is quite rare, I encourage you to keep playing in the event of the game being over earlier than you expected it to be.