Civil Rights Heroes
Who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What does the word injustice mean?
Something that is not fair.
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and went to ______ many times for protesting unjust laws.
Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. protested segregation by giving a ___________ at the March on Washington.
Speech
Who was the girl who helped integrate the schools in Louisiana?
Ruby Bridges
____________ is an injustice where people are separated (kept apart) based on their race.
Segregation
Ruby Bridges had to pass by _____________ every day as she walked into her school.
An angry mob of certain people who did not want her to go to that school.
How did Ruby Bridges and her teacher, Mrs. Henry, respond to the angry mob?
They kept going to school to learn/teach. Eventually, the other students came back.
Which young girl's family went to court to end segregation in California schools?
Sylvia Mendez
The opposite of segregation is _______________.
Integration
Sylvia Mendez wanted to be able to go to a school that was ________ to her house.
Close; closer
How did Sylvia's family respond to the injustice of segregation in their schools?
Who was Ruby Bridges' teacher?
Mrs. Henry
Saying or showing that you disagree with or are angry about something is called a ____________.
Protest
What is an example of an injustice that we read about in our Module 3 books?
Accept any accurate answers: examples of segregation, lack of wheelchair lifts on buses, lack of enough space for students to learn at school, etc.
At a sit-in, when people were asked to move or leave the business they were at, the people ___________.
Name any other Civil Rights Hero that we learned about in this module BESIDES Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, or Sylvia Mendez.
Accept any accurate responses: The Gang of 19, Ms. Maha's students, etc.
What are "civil rights"?
Accept any reasonable answers: Rights that every person should have, such as the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, go to school, and travel to wherever they need or want to go.
The Gang of 19 protested this injustice: _______.
The lack of wheelchair lifts on buses in Denver, Colorado.
How did the Gang of 19 protest not being able to ride buses because there were no wheelchair lifts?
They blocked the road where the buses needed to drive. After that, people could not get where they wanted or needed to go, so the laws had to be changed.