12 years a slave
The character the sympathy lies with
Who is Solomon Northup
The bus Rosa Park found a seat on December 1 1955
What is the Montgomery Alabama bus?
A person who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson ?
The name of Martin Luther King´s popular speech?
What is “I Have a Dream” ?
The first major civil rights legislation since reconstruction
What was The Civil Rights Act of 1975?
The protagonist
Who is Solomon Northup
Laws that were not adopted in the northern states
What is Jim Crow Laws?
Alabama's governor in 1961
The years the war-related work was booming
What was the early 1940's?
Nine black students from Arkansas
Who was Little Rock Nine?
The antagonists
Who is Eliza, Patsey and mr. Epps
A movement that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
What is the civil right movement?
A president and initiated a civil rights agenda, and in 1948 issued Executive Order 9981 to end discrimination in the military
Who is Harry Truman?
Took the Civil Rights Act of 1964 several steps further in 1965
Who was President Johnson?
The amount of days the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted
What is 381 days?
The person that is the main reason Solomon gets his hope up for being reunited with his family
Laws that forbid blacks using the same public facilities as whites
What is Jim Crow Laws?
A Baptist minister who led the Montgomery Improvement Association
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
An islam leader and Organization of Afro-American Unity founder
Who was Malcom X?
The age of Rosa Park in 1955
What is 42-year old?
an excellent fiddle player, a family man and a hard worker, and being a slave for 12 years
What is Solomon Northup known for?
The date president Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law
What is september 9 1957?
The U.S Attorney General in 1961 and brother to John F. Kennedy
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
Joined the SNCC during the Freedom Summer of 1964
Who was Stokely Carmichael?
Seven African Americans and six whites who mounted a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C
Who was the Freedom Riders?