Amendments & Laws
This amendment guarantees equal protection under the law for all citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This movement led to expanded rights and freedoms for African Americans and other marginalized groups.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This event began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This organization focused on advancing civil rights through legal challenges.
What is the NAACP?
This protest involved students refusing to leave segregated lunch counters.
What are Sit-ins?
This amendment prohibited denying voting rights based on race or servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This migration saw African Americans move North to escape discrimination and seek opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
This group of nine students integrated a high school in Arkansas.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
This organization aimed to increase job opportunities for Black Americans.
What is National Urban League?
This method involved refusing to use public transportation systems.
What is Bus Boycott?
This amendment eliminated poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This global influence encouraged nonviolent resistance in the United States.
What is Gandhi / Nonviolent Resistance Movement?
This document explained why African Americans could not wait for equal rights.
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
This organization used nonviolent protest methods inspired by Gandhi.
What is CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)?
These activists rode interstate buses to challenge segregation laws.
What is Freedom Rides?
This law made it a federal crime to interfere with voting rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
This type of discrimination continued in housing and jobs even outside the South.
What is Northern Discrimination ?
This summer campaign focused on increasing Black voter registration.
What is Freedom Summer?
This leader became the face of nonviolent protest during the bus boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This strategy focused on peaceful direct action to challenge injustice.
What is Nonviolent Direct Action?
This act banned literacy tests and increased African American voter registration.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This war helped spark demands for equality at home after fighting abroad.
What is World War II?
This federal action sent troops to enforce school integration.
What is Eisenhower sending federal troops (Little Rock intervention)?
These institutions helped organize meetings and develop leadership skills.
What is African American Churches?
This global method of protest was influenced by Gandhi’s teachings.
What is Nonviolent Resistance?