Civil Rights Movement

Important Figures

100

This leader in the Civil Rights Movement gave the "I have a Dream Speech."

Martin Luther King Jr.

200

This person was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus to a white man sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. 

Rosa Parks

300

This President ordered in the 101st Airborne to support the Little Rock Nine. 

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

400

This high school student filed a lawsuit in order to end school segregation. 

Barbara Johns

500

The lynching of this 14 year old boy helped to spark the Civil Rights Movement. 

Emmett Till

Laws

100

This outlawed Poll Taxes

24 Amendment

200

This law outlawed segregation in public spaces

The Civil Rights Act

300

This law banned literacy tests and gave the Federal Government oversight over Southern State laws. 

The Voting Rights Act 

400

This law required public buildings to accommodate  those with disabilities. 

The Americans with Disabilities Act

500

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guaranteed every child in America this

A free and appropriate public education

Important Groups

100

This group was created to help use the court systems to fight for the rights of African Americans

The NAACP

200

This group helped to plan the Freedom Rides. 

CORE

300

This group was created to help women in the workplace.

NOW (National Organization for Women)

400

The group was founded by former confederate military officers and used terror to stop African Americans from voting. 

The Ku Klux Klan

500

This group issued rulings in Plessy v Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education.

The Supreme Court

Key Events and Concepts

100

This event occurred in Washington DC in August 1963 with Martin Luther King Jr. as the main speaker.

The March on Washington

200

This was money paid in order to vote.

Poll Taxes

300

This group of white and black students traveled on a series of bus in the South to integrate bus terminals. 

The Freedom Riders

400

This was a challenge women faced in the workplace 

Making less money than men

500

This Civil Rights leader was killed in his driveway in 1963.

Medgar Evers

Terms! Terms! Terms!

100

This law required schools to spend equal money on men's and women's sports. 

Title IX

200

This amendment would have guaranteed women equal rights and opportunities. 

The Equal Rights Amendment

300

This was the type of protest favored by leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. 

Passive Resistance

400

African Americans had to pass these in order to vote in the Southern States

Literacy Tests

500

This Supreme Court case ruled that "Separate but Equal" Segregation was okay in this case. 

Plessy vs. Ferguson