Who fought for the civil rights through non - violent marches and by giving speeches.
Is it Martin Luther King.
The separation of people based of the color of their skin
Segregation
250,000 people marched to Washington to demand the end of segregation.
March on Washington
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Refuse to give her seat to a white passenger and inspired a bus boycott.
Is this person Rosa Parks?
Prohibits Racial Discriminations in voting.
Voting Right Act 1965
A protest during which African Americans and whites rode buses together through the South in 1961.
Freedom Rides
Was the first African-American student to integrate into a white school in Louisiana.
Ruby Bridges
Was known for leading the Freedom Rides in the Southern states.
Is this John Lewis.
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Any state laws which enforce or legalize segregation.
Jim Crow laws
Was a mass protest against segregation on the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery Boycott
Was the first African American women elected to the Texas government.
Barbara Jordan
A teacher who led sit-ins and refuse to leave an all white dinner.
Clara Luper
The supreme court ruled that separating children in public-school based on race was unconstitutional.
Brown v, Board
No segregation in public places.
No discrimination in employment based on race or gender.
Civil rights act 1964
To make a place open to people of all races and ethnic groups.
intergration
A march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote.
Selma to Mongomery
Believed that African Americans need to do what ever it takes to get their rights
Malcom X
A court that demanded 'separated but equal' places.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Amendment to the United States Constitution established citizenship for all people born or naturalized in the US, including formerly enslaved people.
14 Amendment
A system where the owner of land allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for money or a share of the crop
Share Cropping
Were the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School.
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