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On December 1 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested.
Who is Rosa Parks?
MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.
What is the March on Washington?
This protests was organized by Civil Rights leaders where black Americans refused to ride city buses on December 5 for one day but it lasted for more than one year.
What was the Montgomery Boycott?
This court ruled that segregation on city buses went against the Constitution.
What was the U.S. Supreme Court?
The acronym NAACP stands for...
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The president who was embarrassed by the actions toward African Americans who was later shot and killed?
Who is JFK, John F Kennedy?
Quote: This Alabama Governor said, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Who is George Wallace?
The ways Black Americans got where they needed to go during the Montgomery Buss Boycott?
What are taxis, walked, rode bikes, and used carpools.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated these tests.
What are literacy tests?
This boy's murder is noted as one of the leading events that motivated the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
The president who was able to get the Civil Rights bill passed.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
This president sent troops in to Arkansas to help enforce integration of schools?
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
The 24th amendment outlawed this.
What are poll taxes?
Black and White Americans together rode various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation
What are the Freedom Riders?
MLK was the president of this Civil Rights organization to help fight for civil rights, also known as MIA.
What is the Montgomery Improvement Association?
This landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that declared laws to separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Black American taxi drivers played a role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott by charging passengers this much to ride.
What is 10 cents?
He was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
The senator who was a major fighter for civil rights and running for president?
Who is Robert Kennedy?
This group of students were blocked from entering high school in 1957 when Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas called out his state's National Guard.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
What two leaders were shot and killed in 1968?
Who are Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
This law was passed in 1964 by President John F. Kennedy that would ban discrimination in public places like restaurants, stores, etc.
What is The Civil Rights Act?