Important Figures
This leader in the Civil Rights Movement gave the "I have a Dream Speech."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This outlawed Poll Taxes
What is the 24 Amendment?
This group was created to help use the court systems to fight for the rights of African Americans
What is The NAACP?
This event occurred in Washington DC in August 1963 with Martin Luther King Jr. as the main speaker.
What is The March on Washington?
This law required schools to spend equal money on men's and women's sports.
What is Title IX?
This person was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus to a white man sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This law outlawed segregation in public spaces
What is The Civil Rights Act?
This group helped to plan the Freedom Rides.
What is CORE?
This was money paid in order to vote.
What are Poll Taxes?
This amendment would have guaranteed women equal rights and opportunities.
What is The Equal Rights Amendment?
This President ordered in the 101st Airborne to support the Little Rock Nine.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This law banned literacy tests and gave the Federal Government oversight over Southern State laws.
What is The Voting Rights Act?
This group was created to help women in the workplace.
What is NOW (National Organization for Women)?
This group of white and black students traveled on a series of bus in the South to integrate bus terminals.
What is The Freedom Riders?
This was the type of protest favored by leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Passive Resistance?
This high school student filed a lawsuit in order to end school segregation.
Who is Barbara Johns?
This law required public buildings to accommodate those with disabilities.
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act?
The group was founded by former confederate military officers and used terror to stop African Americans from voting.
What is The Ku Klux Klan?
This was a challenge women faced in the workplace
What is Making less money than men?
African Americans had to pass these in order to vote in the Southern States
What are Literacy Tests?
The lynching of this 14 year old boy helped to spark the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guaranteed every child in America this
What is A free and appropriate public education?
This group issued rulings in Plessy v Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education.
What is The Supreme Court?
This Civil Rights leader was killed in his driveway in 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers?
This Supreme Court case ruled that "Separate but Equal" Segregation was okay in this case.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?