Amendments
15th amendment
Unfair treatment of a person or group based on gender, race, age, religion, or other differences -- is the definition of what word?
Discrimination
This act addressed discrimination of those selling, renting, or financing homes
The Fair Housing act of 1968
This act stopped employers from discriminating based on race, color, religion or national origin
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
gave citizens of Washington D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections
23rd amendment
refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, AL bus
Rosa Parks
What were the results of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's death?
Rioting throughout the country
The infamous speech on August 28th, 1963
" I have a Dream"
Known as the women's suffrage amendment, giving all American women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
List 3 different tactics black activists used to fight for Civil Rights?
Protests, marches, sit-ins, boycotts, demonstrations, and legal action.
This act ordered the end of segregation in public places
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Won a case that paved the way for African Americans to attend school alongside their white peers and first African American supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
26th amendment
Civil Rights leader best known Leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott, for use of Civil Disobedience, I Have a Dream speech, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Selma marches,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This president signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Signed two laws to support civil rights movement; the civil rights act of 1964 & voting rights act of 1965. Who is?
President Lyndon B. Johnson
This amendment made it illegal for congress or individual states to charge citizens a poll tax in order to vote.
24th amendment
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Organization to improve society through non-violent methods as MLK Jr. did
The King Center
One of the most important sit-ins took place at a store called....in....
Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina