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Civil rights milestones

Order these civil rights milestones by the year they happened. You place all 44 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the Civil Rights timeline game

Each card is a milestone in the struggle for equal rights: a law, a vote, a protest, a court ruling or a barrier broken. Most come from the United States, joined by landmarks from Britain, Brazil, South Africa, Australia and beyond. The place is printed under the name, and you order the cards by the year each happened. One milestone begins on the timeline with its year showing. Put every new card in a gap. A correct guess reveals the year; a wrong one still lands in its true spot, but costs one of three lives.

The deck covers the end of slavery, the long fight for women's votes, the American civil rights movement, apartheid and the march toward legal equality for gay people. The American protests and laws cluster tightly, so knowing which campaign led to which law is a big help. Women won the vote in very different eras depending on the country, and some places that seem forward-looking took far longer than you might guess.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 44 cards you might be dealt, with 16 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Britain abolishes the slave trade United Kingdom
  • Seneca Falls Convention New York
  • Thirteenth Amendment ratified United States
  • Brazil abolishes slavery Brazil
  • Finland grants women full political rights Finland
  • NAACP founded New York City
  • Nineteenth Amendment ratified United States
  • French women win the vote France
  • Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color line Brooklyn
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights Paris
  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat Montgomery, Alabama
  • Greensboro sit-ins North Carolina
  • Freedom Rides American South
  • Equal Pay Act United States
  • Selma to Montgomery marches Alabama
  • Voting Rights Act United States
  • Australian referendum on Aboriginal Australians Australia
  • Thurgood Marshall joins the Supreme Court Washington, D.C.
  • Shirley Chisholm elected to Congress New York
  • Stonewall riots New York City
  • Title IX United States
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Canada
  • Americans with Disabilities Act United States
  • Netherlands legalizes same-sex marriage Netherlands
  • Massachusetts same-sex marriages begin Massachusetts
  • Don't Ask, Don't Tell repealed United States
  • Ireland votes for same-sex marriage Ireland
  • Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriage Taiwan

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