Vocabulary
The separation of the races.
Segregation
Black woman whose arrest for refusing to move to the back of the bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Law that ended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other forms of voter suppression.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What's happening in this photo?
Little Rock Nine going into school escorted by soldiers
The opposite of segregation. When all races are mixed together
Integration
The first Black students to attend an all-white high school in the South.
Little Rock Nine
Law that ended segregation and made discrimination illegal
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Who's the little girl?
Ruby Bridges
To not shop at a store or refuse to pay for a service as a form of protest.
Boycott
Four college students who started the sit-in protest movement
Greensboro Four
Supreme Court case that declared segregated schools were unconstitutional
Brown v Board of Education
What's happening in this photo?
A sit-in protest against segregation
To break the law in a non-violent manner in order to protest injustice
Civil Disobedience
America's oldest civil rights organization which helped organize the Montgomery Busy Boycott as well as brought the lawsuit that would lead to the Supreme Court case of Brown v Board of Education
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
The president who sent soliders to Little Rock to enable Black students to go to high school
President Eisenhower
The photos are from which event during the Civil Rights era?
Montgomery Bus Boycott