Segregation
Plessy V Ferguson said that segregation was legal. This is the term for that separation.
What is separate but equal.
This educator from Tuskegee Institute believed black people had the right to an education.
Who is Booker T. Washington.
This boycott on Montgomery buses began when this woman refused to give up her seat on a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The Alabama Constitution of 1901 had laws that made it difficult for this group to vote.
What were black Americans and poor white Americans?
This means without violence; peaceful.
What is nonviolent?
These laws were used to separate people and to enforce segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws.
This group worked for the rights of black Americans.
What was the NAACP/
This group came to Alabama in 1961 to protest segregation in bus stations in the South.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This march in March, 1965 was to bring attention to the issue of voting rights.
What is the Selma-to - Montgomery March?
A refusal to use goods or services (like a bus service)
What is a boycott?
This means to treat someone unfairly and differently.
What is discriminate?
This leader believed that change should be made in nonviolent ways.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
In 1963, police used dogs, fire hoses, and tear gas on protesters in this city's march.
What is Birmingham?
This act was passed by Congress to make sure all adult citizens had the right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A form of protest in which people just sit in an area.
What is a sit-in?
This court case in the 1950s made segregation in schools against the law.
What is Brown V the Board of Education?
One of the leaders who worked to gain voting rights for all people.
Who were Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis or MLK?
In 1965, Vivian Malone was the first black student to graduate from this university.
What is the University of Alabama?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 made use that citizens no longer had to take this kind of test in order to register to vote.
What is a reading test?
An opinion that is not based on looking at the facts.
What is prejudice?
This man was the governor of Alabama and worked to stop integration.
Who was George Wallace?
This violent act happened in Birmingham in 1963 that brought Birmingham city leaders together.
What was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church?
The day that police attacked the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
What is Bloody Sunday?
What amendments to the US Constitution guarantee Civil Rights? (we learned these 3 amendments when we studied the Civil War and Reconstruction)
What are the 13th, 14, and 15th amendments?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; this organization works for the rights of Black Americans.
What is the NAACP?