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Arrested for not giving up her bus seat, leading to a 13 month boycott.
Rosa Parks
The Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote.
15th Amendment
The 14-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered by white racists in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman?
Emmett Till
Location of the successful bus boycott.
Montgomery, Alabama
Form of protest refusing to spend money with a business.
boycott
Promoted non-violent protests to fight racial injustice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Court case ruling it was unconstitutional to separate school children based on race.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Selma Movie Question: Who was the FBI director during the Civil Rights movement.
J. Edgar Hoover
Location where the 54-mile march for voting rights, to the state capital, started.
Selma, Alabama
Form of protest involving a group of people walking from an assembly point to a destination, usually ending in a rally.
marches
Promoted Black Power
Malcolm X
Laws trying to erase the progress made by civil rights and help reestablish segregation.
Jim Crow Laws
Political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community.
Black Panthers
Location of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Washington, D.C. (March on Washington)
Form of protest where activists request service at segregated lunch counters.
sit-ins
President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Court case that established the "separate but equal" law.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Term given to the day in 1965 where 600 marchers were attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Bloody Sunday
Location where 9 African American students enrolled in high school in 1957.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Organized trips (bus/car) through the deep south in the 1960s as a way to protest.
Freedom Rides
President who sent troops to protect and allow black students to enter school.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Law that banned segregation based on race in America.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights leader who joined MLK in Selma, and went on to became a representative from Georgia.
John Lewis
Location where MLK Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
Memphis , Tennessee
Stopping of work used as a form of peaceful public protest.
strike