Civil Rights People
An African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger
Rosa Parks
The separation of the races
Segregation
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
hating someone because of their skin color
racism
Walking with 1000's of other people demonstrating against racism and discrimination?
Peace Marches and Rallys
Civil Rights leader who was not a supporter of Civil Disobedience, every man has a right to defend himself against unjust discrimination.
Malcom X
Bringing all the races back together
Integration
Passed in 1965, it banned literacy tests for voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
using peaceful means to bring about change
nonviolence
The March across Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama that is known as bloody Sunday.
Selma March
A Civil Rights leader famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
People who marched against racism and discrimination.
activists/protesters
This Civil Rights Act was passed to end all segregation-YEAR?
1964
to stop buying or using a something as a means of protest
boycott
The famous Civil Rights March in Washington DC that was the place where people Martin Luther King jr. made his famous, "I have a Dream Speach.
March on Washington
This fierce advocate for African Americans disagreed with MLK's strategy for equality.
Who was Malcolm X?
People who rode buses all through the south protesting segregation on buses.
Freedom Riders
Supreme court case that declared "Separate is UNEQUAL" which led to school integration.
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
not in agreement with the US Constitution
unconstitutional
9 African American students tried to attend the all-white Central High School but were harassed and terrorized.
Who were the Little Rock 9?
True or False: Most protesters during the Civil Rights Movement were violent.
What was the ruling in Plessy vs Ferguson that was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education?
Hint: Three words
"Separate but equal"
What were literacy tests and poll taxes used for?
decrease amount of blacks voting