People in the Civil Rights Movement
Major Events Concerning The Civil Rights Movement
Vocabulary From The Civil Rights Movement
Vocabulary From the Civil Rights Movement Cont.
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Woman who refused to sit at the back of the bus
Who is Rosa Parks
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Supreme Court rules segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
What is Brown vs Board of Education
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Combining different races
What is Integration
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Peaceful protest/ what MLK Jr preached

What is Nonviolence

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Where was MLK Jr's "I have a dream"" speech delivered

Washington DC

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The First African American Baseball Player
Who is Jackie Robinson
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Prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Seperated peope, of different races as a form of discrimination
What is Segregation
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Organized passive protests where people sit peacefully and refuse to leave
What are Sit-ins
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city the famous bus boycott occured

What is Birmingham

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The man responsible for the integration of the U.S military and federal government
Who is President Truman
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Abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor black americans to vote.

What is the Voting Rights Act

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Included laws that discriminated against African Americans with concern to attendance in public schools and the use of facilities such as restaurants, theaters, hotels, cinemas and public baths. Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people.
What is Jim Crow Laws
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Officially prohibited slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment
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Group of students who worked to integrate Little Rock Central High School

Little Rovk 9

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He did not sink to the levele of the rascists who opposed him and wanted others to do the same
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
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This NAACP leader was shot in their driveway in Mississippi

Who is Medgar Evers

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Refuse to sponser/do business with

What is Boycott

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Protects the voting rights of African American men
What is the 15th Amendment
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President when Civil Rights act passed

Who is Lyndon Johnson

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This man was, at first, scornful of King and disbelieved in his nonviolent approach, but then came to realize they were fighting for the same ultimate goal, freedom.

Who is Malcolm X

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was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi

What is the Freedom Summer

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A civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of people of color.
What is NAACP
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A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism
What is the KKK
500

March that made MLK a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement

Selma

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