Vocabulary
Persons who agree to do work without being paid for it
Who are VOLUNTEERS?
The brave six- year- old girl who, in 1960, was the first African-American to go to a white school despite angry people outside the school
Who was Ruby Bridges?
There are many farms around this town where Cesar Chavez lived and organized farmworkers to make conditions better
Where is Delano, California?
This organization was formed more than 100 years ago to help people in need all over the world, especially when natural disasters occur.
What is The American Red Cross?
This saying means that communities are improved by all kinds of volunteers including large organizations, small projects, and individual people who want to help.
What is "every little bit helps!"?
Not able to do a everyday activity such as walking in the same way as most people do
As a girl, she got sick with polio and had to use a wheelchair, which meant she wasn't allowed to go to school with other children or to teach, until she won a court case. She started a group to help disabled people be treated fairly.
Who was Judy Heumann?
The city where Ruby Bridges lived and went to school.
Where is New Orleans, Louisiana?
Judy Heumann started this group in 1970 to protect people in New York from being treated unfairly.
What is Disabled in Action?
This young girl who wanted black and white students to go to school together was the only student in her classroom for months, until people realized she was not going away.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
When workers stop working to get something they want, such as better pay
What is STRIKE?
He was a poor migrant worker who wanted to make working conditions and pay better for farmworkers
Who was Cesar Chavez?
Companies near this New York town dumped chemical wastes in the waters of Love Canal
Where is Niagara Falls, NY?
Young Cesar Chavez helped form this group in California in 1962 to help farm workers ask for better pay and safer working conditions.
What is the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
Cesar Chavez started this action by asking people to stop buying what the farms sold and, after five years, this action succeeded when the farm owners agreed to pay farmworkers more.
What is a boycott?
Events such as flood or earthquake that cause great harm
What are NATURAL DISASTERS?
This mother believed children in her area were becoming sick because of chemicals in the water flowing from a nearby canal to underneath their school
Who was Lois Marie Gibbs?
Judy Heumann lived in this city, which did not allow her to be a teacher because she used a wheelchair, so she started the group Disabled in Action to ensure disabled people are treated fairly.
Where is New York City, NY?
Another group founded over 100 years ago for the purpose of helping animals. After Hurricane Katrina, this organization's volunteers rescued 8,500 animals.
What is the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)?
The United Farm Workers group and Cesar Chavez called on workers to do this by stopping their work picking crops so that the farm owners would pay attention to their concerns.
What is strike?
When people stop buying something from a certain business
What is BOYCOTT?
This President of the United States, along with the Governor of New York, agreed to help Lois Marie Gibbs and her neighbors move to safer communities.
Who was Jimmy Carter?
This city is located on very low ground protected from a large nearby lake by levees, but some levees broke after Hurricane Katrina causing massive flooding.
Where is New Orleans?
After Hurricane Katrina, kids helped out too, including three sisters from Maryland who started this project which, with the help of people in 40 states, collected over 50,000 backpacks for kids affected by the natural disaster.
What was Project Backpack?
Lois Marie Gibbs believed that the dangerous chemicals dumped in this type of waterway, which flowed underneath her children's school playground, were making children sick.
What is a canal?