People
This woman refused to give up her bus seat, protesting unequal treatment.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This tactic means denying people rights, services, or opportunities.
Withholding
This movement aimed to end racial discrimination and secure equal rights in the U.S.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A protest where people refuse to buy goods or use services.
Boycott
This leader promoted nonviolent protest to fight injustices like withheld rights.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Black Americans were often denied this right through poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is the right to vote?
A peaceful protest where people refused to ride buses to challenge unfair treatment.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Passed in 1965, this act banned literacy tests for voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Signs like “Whites Only” showed this system of racial separation.
What is segregation?
As a young student, she helped integrate a previously all-white school in New Orleans.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Schools for Black students often lacked books and supplies due to this issue.
What is unequal education (or lack of resources)?
This event involved activists marching for voting rights from Selma to this Alabama city.
What is Montgomery?
What year was the Civil Rights Act passed to end all segregation?
1964
This type of test was unfairly used to stop Black voters from registering.
What is a literacy test?
This NAACP leader argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Segregation laws kept people apart in public places, often withholding equal access to these.
What are public facilities?
Students staged sit-ins at these segregated lunch counters to protest being denied service.
What are lunch counters?
This amendment says the right to vote cannot be denied based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Not in agreement with the US Constitution.
Unconstitutional
This activist helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest withheld equal service.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
Denying people fair job opportunities based on race is an example of this issue.
What is employment discrimination?
The people challenged segregation by riding interstate buses into the South.
What are Freedom Riders?
What was the ruling in Plessy vs Ferguson that was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education?
Hint: it's three words.
"Separate but equal"
What were literacy tests and poll taxes used for?
A decrease in the number of Black Americans who would vote.