Brown v. Board of Education
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This group of African American students integrated Central High School in 1957.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
The Freedom Riders challenged segregation on this form of transportation.
What are interstate buses?
transportation. Answer: What are interstate buses? Her refusal to give up her bus seat helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who was Rosa Parks?
Brown v. Board overturned the school-segregation principle established by this 1896 Supreme Court case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Little Rock Nine integrated this Arkansas high school.
What is Central High School?
The Civil Rights Act was signed into law in this year.
What is 1964?
The first Freedom Ride began in this year.
What is 1961?
The boycott took place in this Alabama city.
What is Montgomery?
The Supreme Court ruled that school segregation violated this amendment's Equal Protection Clause
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Arkansas governor used the National Guard in an attempt to prevent the students from entering Central High.
Who was Orval Faubus?
The law prohibited segregation in public accommodations such as these three types of businesses.
What are hotels, restaurants, and theaters?
Freedom Riders included both Black and white activists who rode together to challenge segregation in this type of travel.
What is interstate travel?
This young minister became president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and emerged as a major leader during the boycott.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
This Chief Justice delivered the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown.
Who was Earl Warren?
This president sent the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to enforce integration.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This title of the Civil Rights Act prohibited employment discrimination and created the EEOC.
What is Title VII?
This U.S. attorney general pushed for federal action protecting the Freedom Riders and stronger enforcement of desegregation rules.
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
Boycott participants used this organized transportation alternative in addition to walking.
What were carpools?
The Brown decision declared that state-sponsored school segregation violated this constitutional guarantee.
What is equal protection of the laws?
Eisenhower issued this executive order to federalize the Arkansas National Guard and use federal troops during the Little Rock crisis.
What is Executive Order 10730?
Opponents attempted to stop the Civil Rights Act in the Senate using this lengthy debate tactic.
What is a filibuster?
At Robert Kennedy's request, this federal agency issued stronger rules banning segregation in interstate transportation.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
The boycott ended after federal courts ruled that this practice on Montgomery buses was unconstitutional.
What is racial segregation?