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
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
hating someone because of their skin color
racism
problem of low wages?
increase in the minimum wage
This NY Senator was a supporter of the Civil Right Movement before he was assassinated in 1968.
Who was Robert Kennedy?
Bringing all the races back together
Integration
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Bus Boycott
Passed in 1965, it banned literacy tests for voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
using peaceful means to bring about change
nonviolence
global organization to promote good things around the world?
Peace Corp
A Civil Rights leader famous for his "I Have A Dream" speech
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
People who worked towards social change were called
activists
250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. to ask Congress to make a law that would give African Americans equal rights and quality education.
The March on Washington
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
Individual that Kennedy met with during the Civil Rights movement, and what year did this happen?
MLK, 1963
This fierce advocate for African Americans disagreed with MLK's strategy for equality.
Who was Malcolm X?
Court case that declared that one must be told their rights when they are arrested.
Miranda vs Arizona
This was the name for when young civil rights workers from all over the country went to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to help register African-Americans to vote and promote passage of the Voting Rights Act.
What is the Freedom Summer?
Supreme court case that declared "Separate is UNEQUAL" which led to school integration.
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
got rid of discriminatory actions that prohibited voting in the United States (1965)
1965 Voting Rights Act
legislation that allowed more economic equality?
Equal Pay Act 1963
(equal economic pay for the same work)
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.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in the this city.
What is Memphis?
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
Provide two specific pieces of legislation that helped to improve issues connected with segregation in the United States?
1964 Civil Rights Act
!965 Voting Rights Act