Civil Rights Heroes
This leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This 1964 law ended segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on this type of transportation.
What is a bus?
Treating someone unfairly because of race or gender.
What is discrimination?
This law was passed in this year.
What is 1964?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This law protected voting rights in 1965.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
The city where she was arrested.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
Keeping groups of people separated by law.
What is segregation?
This act that made it illegal to separate people in public places because of race.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Supreme Court Justice argued Brown v. Board before joining the Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The protest that lasted over a year after her arrest.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
A peaceful protest.
What is nonviolence?
This president signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
She was only six when she integrated her school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat because she believed in this idea.
What is equality? (or civil rights)
A change or improvement in society.
What is reform?
This part of the law made job discrimination illegal.
What is employment discrimination? (Title VII)
This civil rights leader helped organize the March on Washington and later became a U.S. Congressman from Georgia.
Who is John Lewis?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
True or False: Rosa Parks was just a tired seamstress who acted randomly.
What is False? (She was a trained activist and NAACP member.)
Equal rights under the law for all people.
What is equality?