People
He was the civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v Board of Education before the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
What is it called when to keep separate?
Segregation
This act prohibited discrimination based on color, race, or religion in public places like restaurants, hotels, motels, and theaters.
Civil Rights Act
Made a huge impact on America
television
President who worked closely with MLK and signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.
Lyndon B Johnson
Riots broke out all over the Us after his assassination
MLK
What is it called to be brought together?
Integration
Stopped literacy tests in order to vote
Voting Rights Act
Race to be the first country to send a man to the moon
Space Race
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Mongomery, AL bus.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott is called ...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
a nonviolent protest that is a refusal to buy goods or services from a particular place.
Boycott
After his assassination, US Secret Service insisted on much tougher security for Presidents.
John F Kennedy
Two countries competing in the Space Race
US and Soviet Union
Migrant Worker who helped farm workers get better pay and work conditions and formed the National Farm Workers Association.
Cesar Chavez
US Senator who was running for President, but was assassinated.
Robert F. Kennedy
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
sit-ins
The government may not require payment as a condition to vote is called...
poll taxes
The space program that was working to send a man to the moon.
NASA
Civil Rights leader best known for use of nonviolent protests, I Have a Dream speech, and the March on Washington.
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
250,000 people marched to Congress to pass civil rights legislation.
March on Washington
A series of events during the 1950's-1960's that led to the creation of laws that guaranteed the constitutional rights to all citizens regardless of race.
Civil Rights Movement
Supreme Court ruled that "Separate is UNEQUAL" which led to the end of segregated schools.
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
Name two benefits of space exploration that is important today
satelites, navigation, weather prediction, lifesaving products, etc.