An influential leader in the civil rights era, assassinated in 1968
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
the case that occurred in 1896 and ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
100
To open to all people of all races or ethnic groups
What is to integrate?
100
1955
When was Rosa Parks arrested?
100
laws passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves
What are blackcodes?
200
the woman who was arrested for famously sitting in the front of a segregated bus and refusing to get up for a white man
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
the court case that occured in 1954 and ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
Direct action to taken to support or oppose a social or political goal
What is activism?
200
1954
When was Brown vs. Board of Education?
200
rights granted to all citizens
What is civil rights?
300
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the oldest civil rights organization in our country
What is the NAACP?
300
the case that ruled segregated buses unconstitutional
What is Montgomery, Alabama vs. Supreme Court?
300
Bus boycott in 1955 to protest segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
300
1896
When was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
300
the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
What are the three amendments passed during the civil rights era?
400
the NAACP legal counsel and first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
400
the case that overturned Brown vs. Board of Education
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
a group of ordinary people who come together at a local level for a cause
What is grassroots?
400
1957
When did violence occur at Little Rock's Central High School?
400
a huge civil rights demonstration in Washington DC, in 1963
What is the March on Washington?
500
an organization created to give young people a greater role in the civil rights movement
What is the Student NOn-violent Coordinating Committee(SNCC)?
500
the cases that ruled while states cannot deny equal protection to citizens, individuals sucha as hotel, restaurant, and other buisness owners are free to discriminate
What is Civil Rights Cases?
500
protest in which people sit in a place and refuse to move until their demands are met
What is a sit-in?
500
1960s
What is the decade in which many sit-ins occurred?
500
SCLC
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference an organization that coordinated non-violent civil rights protests across the South?