Racism
Black people and white people would be legally separated from each other
What is segregation
Wrote the "I have a dream" speech
Who is MLK
Movement that occurred during the 1950s-60s
Civil Rights Movement
The parts of America were fighting against eachother
Whar is the North and South parts
A boycott that lasted 13 months protesting the public transit system
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A type of imprisonment that made people work for free and lasted 256 years
What is slavery
Abolitionist that was born into slavery and help free over 300 enslaved people through the Underground Railroads
Who is Harriet Tubman
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People abbreviated
What is NAACP
The Executive Order that ended slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Most recent protest for the Black community that sparked huge protests around the U.S. in the middle of a world-wide pandemic
What is BLM
Police Officers abusing their power and violating human rights
What is police brutality
Assassinated in 1965, and known for his violent protests
Who is Malcolm X
MLK lead this massive protest in 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial
What is the March on Washington
The amendment that ended slavery
What is the 13th amendment
Was elected the first black President in 2008
Who is Barack Obama
Tests that tested a person's reading and writing skills, used against black people and poor white people as a form of racism to keep them from voting.
What are literacy tests
NASA mathematician and has a movie about her called Hidden Figures
Who is Katherine Johnson
African Americans fought for this during the Civil Rights Movement
Equal Rights
The amount of people estimated to have died
What is 620,000
Assassinated in 1968, Civil Rights Activist (leader), won a Nobel Peace Prize, and lead the March on Washington
Who is MLK
Fees people had to pay to vote
What are poll taxes
Recited her poem at Obama's inauguration and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor in 2010
Maya Angelou
America's largest and oldest civil rights organization
What is the NAACP
Laws established after the Civil War that legalized segregation
Jim Crow laws
The Act that triggered 100,000 slaves to escape to Canada or Mexico in the Underground Railroads
The Fugitive Slave Act