Road to Civil Rights
1950s Civil Rights
Early 1960s
Martin and Malcolm
Late Civil Rights
100

This made slavery illegal except as a punishment for a crime

13th Amendment

100

This Supreme Court case stated that separate schools were by nature not equal

Brown v Board of Education

100

This man was the most famous of member of the United Farm Workers

Cesar Chavez
100

This leader pushed for Black Nationalism and was assassinated in 1965

Malcolm X
100

JFK was assassinated in 1963 in this city

Dallas, Texas

200

This is the period of time after the Civil War that attempted to integrate society

Reconstruction

200

This is the group of African American high schoolers that was forced into a previously all white Arkansas school

Little Rock 9

200

This was the primary form of protest used by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Sit-In

200

MLK was the lead speaker at the end of this major protest in D.C.

March on Washington

200

The 36th President, who signed two major pieces of Civil Rights legislation, was named...

Lyndon B Johnson

300

This provided a path to citizenship and also said that all people are equal under the law

14th Amendment

300

MLK and Rosa Parks were both a part of this civil rights group that led the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

300

This group coordinated the Freedom Rides from Washington D.C. to New Orleans, but was stopped early by Robert Kennedy allowing for their arrest

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

300

This is the highest degree MLK earned from university and in what subject

PhD in Theology

300

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed literacy tests for voting and this important thing in all public places

Segregation

400

Poll taxes and these types of tests were popular means of limited people's voting rights

Literacy

400

Eisenhower signed a Civil Rights Act in this year

1957

400

This is the feminist group we studied inspired by the Feminine Mystique

National Organization for Women

400

MLK gave his I Have a Dream Speech in front of this landmark

Lincoln Memorial

400

This piece of legislation made all voting laws fair and equal for all people (full name)

Voting Rights Act of 1965
500

Jim Crow was a series of legal segregation laws, supported by this Supreme Court Case

Plessy v. Ferguson

500

This was the first African American woman recorded to refuse to give up her seat for a white passenger

Claudette Colvin

500

These 1969 riots led to the spread and wider support for the gay liberation movement

Stonewall Riots

500

Malcolm X's famous speech "By Any Means Necessary" was presented at the ceremony that founded this organization

Organization for Afro American Unity (OAAU)

500

The Secretary of this department is the highest cabinet member in the 25th Amendment's line of succession

State

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