Important People
First African American to play on the US tennis team.
Who is Arthur Ashe?
Required that this public place of education, be segregated.
What are schools?
One method of passive resistance. African Americans would stay at one place where they were refused service.
What are Sit-ins?
Oliver and Leola sued the Board of Education due to this obstacle that their daughter faced daily.
She attended school very far away, while there was a white school only blocks from her home.
The school were little rock 9 took place.
Where is Central High School?
Civil Rights activist who was assassinated. Did not encourage peace over violence.
Who is Malcolm X?
The woman that did not want to give up her seat on the bus.
President Truman ended discrimination in this field.
What is the military?
Leading lawyer of the NAACP.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This person hired the National Guard to prevent the students from entering the school.
Who is the governor of Arkansas?
Leader of the Civil Rights movement, promoted peace, not violence.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
The African American community decided to do this with the bus company. Instead, people did this.
What is Boycott the bus company? What is walk?
President Roosevelt ended discrimination in this industry.
What is defense Industries?
This branch of court was where the case was taken.
What is the Supreme Court?
This person ordered over 1,200 troops to protect the 9 students and maintain peace at Central High School.
Who is President Eisenhower?
The first African American admiral in the US Navy.
Who is Samuel Lee Gravely Jr?
During the reconstruction era of the United States, these were created.
What are Jim Crow Laws
The first African American to join an all white baseball team in 1944.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
The ruling of Brown v. Board of Education.
It was unlawful to keep African Americans and Whites separate.
This is where Dr Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I Have a Dream" Speech.
March in Washington DC
First African American to be elected Governor of a state.
Who is L. Douglas Wilder?
The Supreme Court ruled this in result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Segregation on public transportation is illegal.
This was passed allowing all African Americans the right to vote.
What is The Voting Rights Act?
This level of school was the first to be integrated.
What is High School?
This Law was passed in 1964 banning segregation in all public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act?