People
14 year old who was murdered for speaking to a white woman
Who is Emmett Till?
White supremacy group who used terrorism and violence, primarily against black people
What is The KKK?
Sit-in started in 1960 when 4 black people sat at a lunch counter in what store?
What is Woolworths?
Famous monument MLK, Jr. stood in front of when giving his "I Have a Dream" speech
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
Law that outlawed segregation in public accomodations
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
A 26 year old man who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The leading Civil Rights organization (in the era) and still exists today
What is the NAACP?
A massive march to D.C. as people demonstrated for Civil Rights
What is March on Washington
How did MLK, Jr. die?
What is He was assassinated?
Supreme Court ruling stating separate but equal is unconstitutional (schools)
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Peacemaker from India who inspired the philosophy of non-violent protests
Who is Gandhi?
C.O.R.E. organized busses to take volunteers to southern states to help register black voters.
What is/are Freedom Ride(s)?
A march organized by MLK, Jr.; as marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge, they were beaten (which was televised)
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
Who is President Johnson (LBJ)?
Amendment that outlawed poll taxes
What is the 24 amendment?
Lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case and later became a justices on the Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Southern black ministers formed this group and chose MLK, Jr. as their leader
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Event that prompted the Montgomery Bus Boycotts
What is the arrest of Rosa Parks?
MLK, Jr. said, "We must use the weapon of our ___."
What is Love?
Supreme Court decision that declared laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional
Promoted black pride and black nationalism, member of the Nation of Islam
Who is Malcolm X?
Group of young people that formed to carry out the work that students had begun in the Greensboro sit-ins. They operated in the deep south (demonstrations, voting registrations)
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
Crisis at a high school in Arkansas that led to Army soldiers maintaining order for the school year (what town?)
What is Little Rock?
In 1964, MLK, Jr. received this for his work in the Civil Rights Movement
What is a Nobel Peace Prize?
In an effort to block a vote in the Senate, Strom Thurmond did this
What is a fillibuster?