Vocabulary
Mendez
Little Rock Nine
East LA Walkouts
Lau
100
Definition: to find what is similar
What is to compare?
100
Her name (the student in the Mendez court case).
Who is Sylvia Mendez?
100
The race of the Little Rock Nine.
What is Black / African American?
100
The ethnicity of the East LA activists.
What is Chicano or Latine?
100
The student in the Lau court case.
Who is Kinney Lau?
200
Definition: the forced separation of people based on their race or ethnicity
What is segregation?
200
The languages the Mendez family spoke.
What are English and Spanish?
200
The language the Little Rock Nine all spoke.
What is English?
200
The languages the student organizers spoke.
What are English and Spanish?
200
The Lau family's native language.
What is Chinese?
300
Definition: the quality that makes you continue trying to do something even when this is difficult
What is determination?
300
The court case involving the Mendez family.
What is Mendez versus Westminster?
300
The high school the Little Rock Nine integrated.
What is Central High School?
300
One of the high schools involved in the walkouts.
What is Garfield / Roosevelt / Lincoln / Belmont, / Wilson high school?
300
The court case involving Kinney Lau.
What is Lau versus Nichols?
400
Definition: a person who works to achieve political or social change
What is an activist?
400
The state where the Mendez family lived.
What is California?
400
The state the Little Rock Nine lived in?
What is Arkansas?
400
The city the walkouts occurred in.
What is Los Angeles?
400
The city the students in the Lau court case went to school in.
What is San Francisco?
500
Definition: a claim against somebody a person / organization can make in court
What is a laswuit?
500
The year of the Mendez court case.
What is 1947?
500
The year of the Little Rock Nine integration.
What is 1957?
500
The year of the East LA Walkouts.
What is 1968?
500
The year of the Lau court case.
What is 1974?