Students who defied Arkansas law and enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas
Who are the the Little Rock Nine?
100
This law outlawed discrimination in public places across America
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
100
Police must read a suspect their rights when arrested
What are the Miranda Rights?
100
Martin Luther King assassinated
What is 1968?
100
Led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta;fought to improve working conditions for migrant workers
What is the Chicano Workers Movement?
200
NAACP lawyer who fought in Brown v Board Education case; became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
200
Laws that were created to intentionally segregate blacks from whites
What are Jim Crow laws?
200
A decision by the United States Supreme Court that defined the constitutional rights of students in U.S. public schools
What is Tinker v Des Moines
200
Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas, blocks the integration of Little Rock High School, by using the National Guard to prevent nine students from entering.
What is 1957?
200
In California, students leave class to protest inadequate educational opportunities
What are the LA Walk-outs?
300
President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Voting Rights Act 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968
Who was Lyndon B Johnson?
300
Plessy v Ferguson said that this was constitutional
What is separate but equal?
300
Supreme Court case that held that Mexican Americans were “a class apart,” a distinct group entitled to the same constitutional protections as other minorities under the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Hernandez v Texas?
300
Brown v Board of Education
What is 1954?
300
Female Mexican American civil rights leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers Association
Who is Dolores Huerta?
400
NAACP secretary who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Universal suffrage for people 18 years or older
What is the 26th Amendment
400
Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
What is Escobedo v Illinois?
400
Bloody Sunday, Selma Alabama
What is 1965?
400
Movement that began in the 1960s in Mexican-American barrios. Artists used the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture.
What is the Chicano Mural Movement?
500
Mexican American Civil Rights leader who led a grape boycott in the 1960s
Who was Cesar Chavez?
500
Amendment that outlawed poll tax
What is the 24th amendment?
500
Supreme Court ruling that protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures,"
What is Mapp v Ohio?
500
Montgomery Bus Boycott
What is 1955?
500
U.S. labor union founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to empower migrant farm workers and improve their wages and working conditions