Civil Rights Leaders
She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man since she was against segregation laws.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Ending the separation of people by racial or ethnic group.
What is desegregation?
The court case that Thurgood Marshall brought to the Supreme Court to argue that African Americans were not getting the same education as white students.
What was the Brown vs. BOE of Topeka, Kansas?
When African Americans refused to use the bus system to protest segregation.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Gave all men the right to vote.
What was the 15th Amendment?
A civil rights lawyer who brought a school segregation case to the Supreme Court and won.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
A way of bringing change without using violence.
What is a nonviolent protest?
The law of 1964 making segregation illegal in public businesses and places.
What was the Civil Rights Act?
This new technology started entering U.S. households and enabled Americans to follow world events like never before.
What is television?
Gave all women the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment?
A minister from Atlanta, Georgia who encouraged many people with his speeches against segregation and promoted nonviolent protests.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The rights that countries guarantee their citizens.
What are civil rights?
President who signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who was President Lyndon B. Johnson?
The competition to send people into space between the US and the Soviet Union; the Soviets made the first victory in space when they launched Sputnik I (satellite).
What was the Space Race?
Gave people in Washington, D.C. the right to vote for the president.
What was the 23rd Amendment?
A civil rights leader who ran for President in 1968, but he was assassinated during the campaign.
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
The refusal to buy, sell, or use certain goods.
What is a boycott?
The laws that segregated African Americans from whites particularly in the South after the end of the Civil War.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech here.
What was the March on Washington?
The amendment that banned poll taxes.
What was the 24th Amendment?
An American farm worker who wanted better conditions and wages for migrant farm workers.
Who was Cesar Chavez?
The murder of an important person in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons.
What is an assassination?
The law of 1965 that stated a person's voting rights could not be restricted.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
President who supported change in U.S. society, approved a bigger budget for NASA during the Space Race with the U.S.S.R.; assassinated in Texas in 1963.
Who was President John F. Kennedy?
Changed the voting age to 18 years old.
What was the 26th Amendment?