The Civil Rights Movement
This person refused to give up their seat to a white man and spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This group of white supremacists would often stand outside of voting booths and prevent African Americans from voting.
This is a belief that people of one race are superior to the people of another.
What is racism?
This Indian man is where King and other civil rights leaders got most of their ideas of civil disobedience.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This little girl was only 5 years old when she was integrated into another elementary school. She is still alive today at 67 years old.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This person is considered the face of the Civil Rights Movement - he gave a famous speech at the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
After the Voting Rights Act was passed, African American voter registration did this. (Increased, decreased, or stayed the same)
What is increased?
This is a policy of keeping people of different races separate.
What is segregation?
This provision in a bill prevents discrimination in schools that are funded by the federal government.
What is Title IX?
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This Supreme Court Case ruled segregation unconstitutional in schools.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
The Voting Rights Act got rid of these two hindrances of African American voting. Please list one of the two.
What are poll taxes and literacy tests?
This is the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.
What is Affirmative Action?
There are 4 amendments that deal with due process of law, the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th amendments. Explain what one of those amendments is.
Answers will vary. (search and seizure, double jeopardy, right to remain silent, right to an attorney, eminent domain, no excessive fines/bails, etc.)
This day becomes known as this, due to the attack of peaceful protesters in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers.
What is Bloody Sunday?
The 9 high school students that were integrated into a public high school became known as this.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
This Act of 1964 made discrimination illegal when hiring, firing, or promoting people.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This is protections and privileges guaranteed by law to citizens of a country.
What are civil rights?
This is fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement.
What is due process?
This man was a known Freedom Rider who also helped lead a march in Selma, Alabama. He later became a U.S. Senator.
This was when African American people refused to ride buses to protest segregation in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This amendment got rid of poll taxes and encouraged African Americans to sign up to vote.
What is the 24th amendment?
This is the quality of being fair and impartial.
What is equity?
This is the name of the teacher who did the "blue eye - brown eye experiment" in her classroom to teach her all-white class about discrimination.
Who is Jane Elliot?
This young girl was chosen to be the face of the Montgomery Bus Boycott but then was denied because she turned out to be pregnant.
Who was Claudette Clovin?