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As President, he passed three key pieces of legislation, making segregation illegal and voting rights easier for African Americans.
Lyndon B. Johnson
He worked to get better wages and working conditions for farmworkers in California and organized the United Farm Workers Union.
Cesar Chavez
_________________ is the keeping of white and black people separate.
segregation
Which president intended to pass the Civil Rights legislation?
John F. Kennedy
What caused the abuses of the Jim Crow laws to be KNOWN by everyone in American?
television
New laws that required all public facilities to be integrated and prohibited discremination in businesses and schools were called the ____________________.
Civil Rights Act
COMPLETE SENTENCE
What risks did the Civil Rights Protestors face?
violence, abuse, death, ridicule, punishment
At the age of six years old, she was the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the south.
Ruby Bridges
This President began the difficult work of creating Civil Rights Legislation, but did not get to see any of the Acts passed because of his assassination in 1963.
John F. Kennedy
What is integration?
to unite and give equal rights to racial groups
After Rosa Parks was arrested, who led the protest to boycott buses, called the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
About how many people gathered together at the nation's capital for the historical March on Washington for jobs and freedom?
250,000
Little Rock Nine
What was the main goal of the Civil Rights Movement?
answers will vary 🙂
Known as the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement", this preacher used every unfair treatment of African Americans as an opportunity to protest peacefully in the hopes of making change in America.
Martin Luther King
She refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 for a white man and was arrested as a result?
Rosa Parks
Which important Civil Rights figure refused to give up her seat on the bus after a long day of work?
Rosa Parks
What is the name of Martin Luther King Jr's most famous speech?
i Have a Dream
A minister and Civil Rights leader during the 1950's and 1960's who believed in peaceful protests was:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was an effect of Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of the bus?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
He was an American politician who advocated for civil rights, ran for president and was assassinated in 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy
Her father filed a lawsuit with the education board so his daughter could attend a neighborhood "white" school, which was not legal at the time.
Linda Brown
Which of the following were examples of places that were segregated during the Civil Rights Movement?
a. buses
b. restrooms/water fountains
c. housing
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that African Americans could gain their rights by protesting against unfair laws in what way?
peacefully
College students used these to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.
sit-ins
Why were the Little Rock Nine unable to attend school on the first day?
The Governor of Arkansas had sent troops from the state's National Guard to stop them from entering the building.
He was a prominent lawyer who represented the Brown family in Brown vs. the Board of Education. He later went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
He was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the United States in the 20th century.
Jackie Robinson
Which law banned discrimination of any American because of their race, religion or color?
The Civil Rights Act
What was Cesar Chavez's greatest achievement?
He created a labor union for farm workers.
The elimination of literacy tests in all elections was a part of which piece of legislation?
Voting Rights Act
Thurgood Marshall successfully argued which landmark Supreme Court case?
Brown vs. The Board of Education