Civil Rights People 1
An African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger
Rosa Parks
African American teen from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered while visiting family in the South;
Who was Emmett Till?
organized in the fall of 1960 by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Student activists who organized nonviolent civil rights protests and voter registration drives.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
to stop buying or using a something as a means of protest
What is a boycott?
This NY Senator and President. A supporter of the Civil Right Movement before he was assassinated in 1968.
Who was Robert Kennedy?
American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Rosa Park's arrest led to a 1 year nonviolent protest of segregation on public transportation
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)?
Passed in 1965, it banned literacy tests for voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the ______.
What is the Great Society?
A Civil Rights leader famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
Director of the NAACP in Mississippi and a lawyer who defended the rights of African Americans; _________ was murdered in 1963.
Who was Medgar Evers?
The SNCC launched _________ where student protesters would sit at 'white only' sections of lunch counters to challenge segregation.
What are sit-ins?
This Civil Rights Act was passed to end all segregation-YEAR?
1964
organization to fight for opportunities for women
What is the e National Organization for Women (NOW)
A Civil Rights leader who combined ideas about independence with teachings of Islam.
Who was Malcolm X?
U.S. Democratic president after Kennedy was assassinated; signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. to ask Congress to make a law that would give African Americans equal rights and quality education.
What is the March on Washington?
The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
What is Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)?
movement that called for African American power and independence
What is Black Power?
9 African American students who tried to integrate the all-white Central High School in Arkansas
Who were the Little Rock 9?
Hispanic activist who founded the United Farm Workers
Who was Cesar Chavez?
series of protests in which black and white passengers tried to integrate southern bus stations; ___________ were bus journeys challenging racial segregation in the South in 1961.
What are the Freedom Rides?
Founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
Hint: Took legal steps to fight unfair laws.
What is the NAACP?
union that fought for migrant farm workers’ rights
What is the United Farm Workers Union?