Key People
He was the lead lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This boycott began after Rosa Parks' arrest and lasted over a year.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This case ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
She refused to move to the back of a bus, starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
A massive 1963 demonstration that included MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This case upheld "separate but equal," later overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Gave citizenship and equal protection to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The peaceful refusal to obey certain laws.
What is civil disobedience?
He was the President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
A protest march from Selma to Montgomery that helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is the Selma March?
This case ruled that Mexican Americans and other racial groups are protected under the 14th Amendment.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?
Gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A refusal to use or buy goods/services as a form of protest.
What is a boycott?
He gave the "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This act was signed in 1964 and banned segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A 1950 case that helped set the stage for Brown v. Board of Education by challenging separate law schools.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
Guaranteed women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A method of protest where people occupy a space and refuse to leave.
What is a sit-in?
This activist argued that Black people should defend themselves "by any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
This group of nine Black students was escorted by federal troops into a high school in Arkansas in 1957.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This case said Amish families could not be forced to send their kids to school beyond 8th grade, protecting religious freedom.
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
Prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This phrase from Plessy v. Ferguson allowed segregation to continue for decades.
What is "separate but equal"?