Civil Rights 1
This group of people were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions that had ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
The Freedom Riders
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
What president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Lyndon B. Johnson
This person was a colleague of MLK Jr. and worked with him to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also helped MLK Jr. create the Montgomery Improvement Association.
Ralph Abernathy
In Fayette County, Tennessee, many landowners evicted black renters or sharecroppers if they were registered to vote. This forced many African Americans to live in what was known as ___________.
Tent Cities
This person sued the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas because his daughter couldn’t go to the school that was much closer. He claimed this violated her 14th Amendment rights.
Oliver Brown
This is the name of the first group of black students that went to the integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee.
Clinton 12
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." is a famous line from a speech by ........
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This person was a leader and strategist of the student wing of the 1960s Movement. Grew up in Chicago, IL, and went to college at Fisk University in Nashville, TN. Founded many civil rights groups.
Diane Nash
This bill authorized the federal U.S. government to enforce desegregation of public places and it made it illegal to discriminate in publicly owned facilities.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This person was the Attorney General who ordered U.S. Federal Marshals to protect the freedom riders. He was also the brother of the president of the United States.
Robert Kennedy
This person was trained in Civil Rights activism at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. In December 1955, in Montgomery, AL, she refused to give up seat on the bus to a white man and was arrested and fined $10.
Rosa Parks
This person was the first African American child to attend William Frantz Elementary School. The parents of the white children at this school gathered in protest as this child bravely walked up to the schoolhouse entrance while escorted by U.S. Marshalls.
Ruby Bridges
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This person was assassinated in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968. He had just delivered his speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop." He was only 39 years old at the time of his death.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This person was trained in Civil Rights activism at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. Was a minister of the Dexter Ave. Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL. Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott as well as many other peaceful protests. Gave “I Have a Dream” Speech on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C. Was assassinated in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1868.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
On November 22, 1963, President John Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. While there are some differing theories about who killed President Kennedy, most believe that it was______________.
Lee Harvey Oswald
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This president worked with MLK Jr. to try to help the Civil Rights Movement, but was assassinated before he was able to see the end of the fight.
John F. Kennedy
This person worked for the NAACP and served as the lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education. He was later appointed as the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
A social justice leadership training school and cultural center that trained civil rights leader Rosa Parks as well as activists, Marting Luther King.
Highlander Research and Education Center originally known as the Highlander Folk School.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
The youngest man to be elected president of the United States. He was inaugurated at age 43.
John F. Kennedy
This man said, “in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” This happened on May 17, 1954, when the Supreme Court made their decision on Brown v. Board of Education
Justice Earl Warren