People
She wouldn't give up her seat on the bus
Rosa Parks
Where Billie lives in Night on Fire
Alabama (Anniston)
Announcement about slavery by Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Supreme Court case about school segregation
Brown v Board of Education
A non-violent measure of MLK, Jr where black and white young people occupied dining counters
Sit-in
Gave a famous speech at the March on Washington
MLK, Jr.
Where does Stella by Starlight take place?
North Carolina (Bumblebee)
The amendment which abolished slavery
The 13th Amendment
What did Plessy v. Ferguson allow?
It upheld a Louisiana law allowing separate but equal accomodations for whites and blacks
He opposed MLK, Jr's approach of peaceful, passive protesting
Malcolm X
US President who passed the Civil Rights Act
Lyndon B. Johnson
The state where Emmett Till was murdered
Money, Mississippi
Laws created in the south to enforce segregation between whites and blacks
Jim Crow Laws
Freedom Summer participants were trying to change which laws?
Voting Rights laws
The March on Washington took place at which monument in D.C.
The Lincoln Memorial
First African American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
Jackie Robinson
The city where 9 African Americans students were chosen to integrate an all-white high school
Little Rock, Arkansas
The amendment giving citizenship to all people born in the United States
The 14th Amendment
President John F. Kennedy (JFK) put together this bill which would later become what Act in 1964?
Civil Rights Act
A name attributed to segregation protesters who rode buses and occupied bus station waiting rooms
Freedom Riders
The two people who started the NAACP to fight for progress for African Americans
W.E.B. Dubois and Ida B. Wells
This boycott lasted for 381 days - need city name and type of boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott (Alabama)
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
The 15th Amendment
In 1846, this enslaved Black man sued for his freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. He claimed he was free due to current residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited. The court ruled in 1857 that African Americans, free or enslaved, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
Dred Scott (v. Sanford)
The governor of Arkansas who called in the National Guard to keep his schools segregated
Orval Faubus