Civil Rights Leaders
Events/Laws
vocabulary
vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man since she was against segregation laws.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Ending the separation of people by racial or ethnic group.
What is desegregation?
100
space race
What is the race between the US and Soviet Union to get the first person into space?
100
prosperity

What is economic success?

100
These were created to keep blacks and whites separated in public places.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
200
A civil rights lawyer who brought a school segregation case to the Supreme Court and won.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
A way of bringing change without using violence.
What is a nonviolent protest?
200
civil rights
What are the rights that a country guarantees their citizens?
200
welfare

What is a government program that helps people who are in need?

200
The person who started the Peace Corps.  He was assassinated for his Civil Rights efforts.
Who was President John F. Kennedy?
300
A minister from Atlanta, Georgia who encouraged many people with his speeches against segregation and promoted nonviolent protests.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
300
The rights that countries guarantee their citizens.
What are civil rights?
300
nonviolent protest
What is a way of bringing change without violence?
300
baby boom

What is an increase in the number of babies born after World War II?

300

He was a civil rights leader who ran for President in 1968, but he was assassinated during the campaign. 

Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
400
Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat led to this event. African Americans refused to use the bus system to protest segregation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
400
The court case that Thurgood Marshall brought to the Supreme Court to argue that African Americans were not getting the same education as white students.
What is Brown vs. BOE of Topeka, Kansas?
400
racism
What is the belief that one race, or group of people, is better than another?
400
veteran

What is a person who served in the military?

400

President who signed the Civil Rights Act into law in 1964.

Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech here.
What is the March on Washington?
500
The law of 1964 making segregation illegal in public businesses and places and the law of 1965 that stated a person's voting rights could not be restricted.
What are the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act?
500
desegregation

What is ending the separation of people by racial or ethnic group?

500
vaccine

What is a medicine given to people to protect against disease?

500
He is known for his famous "I Have a Dream" speech which he gave at the March on Washington.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
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