Laws
This amendment abolished slavery for good.
13th Amendment
Slavery occurred in how many of the original 13 colonies?
13
This was a boycott of transportation in a town that was discriminating against the Black community.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This figure rooted his nonviolent beliefs in his Christianity and led a multitude of peaceful protests to achieve racial equality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which figure preferred nonviolent protests, and which was willing to use violence as self-defense?
1) MLK 2) Malcolm X
This law deemed segregation in public institutions (schools) to be UNconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
What's the name of the era right after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
This was a nonviolent protest in the form of a march to achieve voting rights.
The March from Selma to Montgomery
This figure was well known for his heartbreaking death at just 14 years old and public funeral that gathered tens of thousands of supporters.
Emmett Till
What specific age group was often at the root of protests?
College students
This law was signed by President Johnson due to the work of Martin Luther King Jr on voting rights in the March from Selma to Montgomery.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Did all states want to participate in reconstruction?
No - the South did not.
This was a form of nonviolent protest that took place within restaurants in college towns all over the South.
The Greensboro Sit-ins or the Sit-in Movement
This figure is known for his self-defense ideals of protest and for establishing the Black Power Movement
Malcolm X
About how many people attended Emmett Till's public funeral?
Over 100,000
Which famous Supreme Court Case determined segregation or the separate but equal doctrine to be constitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What did the 15th amendment prohibit?
Prohibits the government from denying someone the right to vote based on their race or previous condition of servitude (slavery).
This protest tested the laws passed to integrate public transportation in the South.
The Freedom Rides
This figure is known for her bravery, integrating into an all-white school at just six years old and facing violence and threats from the community.
Ruby Bridges
The Tuskegee Airmen
Which amendment granted voting rights to formerly enslaved people?
14th Amendment
When did women get the right to vote?
1920
This was a protest that took place while MLK Jr delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
The March on Washington
These four figures sparked a sit-in movement that spread to multiple nearby college towns.
The Greensboro 4
What is systemic racism?
The racism that's harder to see plainly - includes being denied housing and jobs and being targeted by the police.