People
She wrote The Feminine Mystique AND help found the National Organization for Women.
Who is Betty Friedan?
Made segregation legal in the United States.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
The Equal Rights Amendment was not passed due to the efforts of ___________ _____________ who founded the organization STOP ERA.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
This speech was given during Martin Luther King's March on Washington.
What is "I have a dream"?
Refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This man helped Hispanic Americans work for better wages and benefits.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Thurgood Marshall was a NAACP attorney in the case of ______________ ______ ______________ which ruled that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Judy Heumann helped organize _________________ __ _______________, a group which raised awareness of the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
What is "Disabled in Action"?
This was founded in 1968 to fight for Native Americans' Rights.
What is the American Indian Movement?
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
Founded the Black Power Movement.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
The act of breaking a law that is unjust in hopes of changing it.
What is Civil Disobedience.
The ___________ _____________ was part of President Johnson's plan for domestic reforms.
What is "The Great Society"?
His first inaugural address has become famous in our nation.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This protest lead to a Supreme Court decision to end segregation on public busing.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This civil rights leader support African Americans being socially and politically independent and support A.A. defending themselves against racist groups.
Who was Malcolm X?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The Civil Right Movement was strongly supported by this young president.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
A series of domestic reforms that John F. Kennedy wanted to implement.
What is "the New Frontier"?
These were often disturbed by white counter protesters and were even bombed.
What are Freedom Rides?
He helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
First African American woman elected to the United States Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The United Farm Workers worked for better pay and working conditions for the _________ farmer.
What is the "migrant"?
Helped ban discrimination of people with disabilities.
What is Disabled in Action?
These people were successfully prevented from enter Central High School on Sept. 4, 1957 because the governor had ordered the National Guard troops to stop them.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?