Segregation
This public service was segregated with white people using the front or any location and black people using the back and the back only.
What is the bus?
This young activist entered an all white school in the year 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This town integrated schools in the 1960's after almost two years of protest.
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
This teacher came from Boston, MA to teach Ruby Bridges.
Barbara Henry
This activist passed in the early 1900's with no photographs taken.
Who is Sarah Roberts?
This public place had a working facility for white people and a broken facility for black people.
What is the public bathroom/water systems?
This young activist entered an all white school in at the age of four in 1847.
Who is Sarah Roberts?
This town integrated schools in 1855, when states were allowed to make their own laws.
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
The lawyer that assisted the Roberts family along with African American Lawyer Robert Morris.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This activist still lives in New Orleans, Louisiana and shares her story across the country.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
A set of laws that were considered separate but equal.
What were Jim Crow laws?
This man inspired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his early activist career.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
This young writer tricked his local librarian by borrowing a library card from a white coworker.
Who is Richard Wright?
This presidential candidate protested during the civil rights movement.
Who is Bernie Sanders?
This activist was assassinated in April 1968 at 36 years old.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
In 1964, this act eradicated all state and local laws involving segregation.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This young lady inspired Rosa Parks to refuse to give up her seat, starting the Montgomery, AL bus boycott.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Who is Audrey Faye Hendricks?
These people didn't participate in acts of racism but didn't do anything about it.
What are the white moderate or white bystanders?
This activist passed at the age of 93 but still told her tale up to the end of her life about speaking up for what is right. Even if there is a consequence!
Who is Rosa Parks?
When segregation finally ended in the United States.
What happened in the year 1968?
This man is considered the father of the civil rights movement.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
What group promotes the current civil rights of black people?
What is Black Lives Matter?
This president was friends with the late and great LGBT civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
Who is president John F. Kennedy?
This activist made history as a young mother, but is continuing to make history as a great grandmother as she continues to inspire others.
Who is Claudette Colvin?