the author of the Feminine Mystique and co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
Betty Friedan
100
policy the requires people to stop working at a certain age
mandatory retirement
100
mixing of different racial groups
integration
100
in two languages; describing a person that has the ability to speak two languages fluently
bilingual
100
the first African American to play major league baseball
Jackie Robinson
200
organized campaign to refuse to buy or use certain goods or services
boycott
200
an African American lawyer who argued Brown vs. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and won the case; later, he became the first African-American justice in the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
200
BONUS! What was Jackie Robinson's number?
42
200
organizer of the Grey Panthers
Maggie Kuhn
200
program to provide more jobs and educational opportunities for people who faced discrimination in the past
affirmative action
300
system in which government agencies make cash payments to the poor
welfare
300
BONUS! What is the color of the background?
Blue
300
a former California governor who became chief of justice of the Supreme Court in 1953 who presided over many important decisions
Earl Warren
300
BONUS! What is the name of our school mascot?
Buzz
300
poor run-down neighborhood where one group of people live due to poverty and prejudice
ghetto
400
an African American minister who led the Montgomery bus boycott and who became a leader of the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King JR.
400
form of protest in which people sit and refuse to leave
sit-in
400
BONUS! Who is our U.S. history teacher?
Mrs. Moore
400
Mexican American co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) and organizer of the California grape boycott
Cesar Chavez
400
JFK's vice president; and Kennedy's assassination, he became president and pushed important civil rights and the Great Society legislation through Congress
Lyndon Johnson
500
a militant African American leader who initially called for the separation from white society before rejecting separatism in favor of cooperation between the race
Malcolm X
500
African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi after a federal court order
James Meredith
500
an African American seamstress and secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man
Rosa Parks
500
a militant African American leader who developed a movement called black power
Stokely Carmichael
500
idea based on nonviolence that people have the right to disobey the law they consider unjust, if their conscience demand it