Vocabulary
What is equality?
These are laws that were passed in the South that did not give blacks the same rights as whites.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Barbara Johns was this age when she staged the student walkout.
What is 16 years old?
The purpose of this is to protest, desegregate, and promote political, social, or economic change for equality.
What is a sit-in?
This is one of the reasons that Barbara Johns was fed up and decided to lead a protest, in comparison to the all white schools.
What is cracked ceilings, use of umbrella's indoors, toilets that barely worked, no gym, cafeteria, or science lab, overcrowded buildings, old furniture and materials?
Refusal to work or take part in normal activities as a form of protest.
What is a strike?
She was the first African American child to desegregate an Elementary School.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Ayanna Najuma was this age when she took part in the sit-in.
What is 7 years old?
This means standing or waiting around without a good reason to be in an area.
What is loitering?
This allowed for separate public facilities for Black people and white people, as long as they were equal. In reality, they never were; things for white people were always superior.
What is separate but equal?
The highest court of law in the United States
U.S. Supreme Court
This was a landmark decision in 1954 of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled segregation in public schools, unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Barbara called this group for support, due to the unfair treatment and inequalities of blacks at the high school she attended.
What is the NAACP?
This is an organized effort to secure voting and other legal rights of African Americans.
What is civil rights movement?
After the lawsuit was filed, Barbara received death threats and was harassed by this group.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Things not allowed by the constitution of a country or government.
What is unconstitutional?
This U.S. court case that happened in ______ ruled that segregation was legal as long as equal facilities were provided for both races.
What is 1896 and Plessy vs. Ferguson
Ayanna Najuma along with this many other children participated in a sit-in at this diner.
What is 12 and Cat's Diner?
This is a civil rights organization that ensures political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all people, and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is NAACP?
Two things that happened when Ayanna Najuma participated in her sit-in.
Intolerant to others ideas and people, especially of other races. This keeps people of different races from learning from and befriending one another.
What is bigotry?
NAACP was founded in ________ and the acronym means this.
1909 and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Barbara John's led her protest in this year.
This U.S. President signed the civil rights letter ending segregation in this year.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson and what is 1964?
Ayanna was visiting this city when she decided that she wanted to make a change and desegregate places in this city, which was her hometown.
What is NYC and OKC?