What document, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, sets out a broad range of fundamental human rights to be universally protected for all people?
What event in 1969, often considered a turning point in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, involved a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid?
Prior to becoming a nationally recognized civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. served as a pastor in which Alabama city, where the transformative bus boycott took place?
Which American abolitionist and women's rights advocate, born into slavery, delivered the powerful "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at a women's convention in 1851?
Founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, what organization advocated for Black Power, self-defense, and community programs in the late 1960s?
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, is an activist primarily known for advocating what specific right, especially in her home country of Pakistan?
The Little Rock Nine were initially prevented from entering Little Rock Central High School by order of which segregationist Arkansas governor, leading to federal intervention?
Who was the chief counsel for the NAACP in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
What specific constitutional amendment, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for a crime?
In what year did the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a comprehensive civil rights law prohibiting discrimination based on disability, become law in the United States?