Baldwin's Life
Baldwin grew up in this New York City neighborhood.
Harlem
This system of racial segregation was challenged during Baldwin’s lifetime.
Jim Crow Era
Prolonged unfair treatment of a group of people.
Oppression
Paying workers unfairly.
Injustice
This woman’s arrest for refusing to give up her seat helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
Before becoming famous, Baldwin moved to this European city to escape racism in America.
Paris
Baldwin often wrote about inequality based on this social concept.
Race
The qualities and beliefs that make a person who they are.
Identity
Women in some countries have been denied education.
Oppression
A peaceful protest against unfair laws is an example of this kind of action during the Civil Rights Movement.
Resistance
Baldwin worked as this type of religious leader as a teenager.
Preacher
This 1963 event featured Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
March on Washington
A situation that is unfair or violates rights.
Injustice
Certain neighborhoods did not allow people of color to live there.
Segregation
This word describes unfair treatment of people based on characteristics like race, religion, or gender.
Discrimination
What year was he born.
1924
This movement sought equal rights for Black Americans during the 1950s and 1960s.
Civil Rights Movement
Treating everyone fairly and giving the same rights
Equality
A person struggles to understand where they belong in society.
Identity
This 1955–1956 protest in Alabama began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and led to a major Supreme Court decision ending bus segregation.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Baldwin used this form of writing to share his opinions about race, identity, and American society.
Essays
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared that segregated public schools were unconstitutional and helped end “separate but equal” education.
Brown vs Board
Separating people based on race or other traits
All citizens are allowed to vote regardless of race or religion.
Equality
This federal law, passed in 1965, made it illegal to prevent people from voting based on race.
Voting Rights Act