Civil Rights Strategies
Civil Rights Events
Civil Rights Victories
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A form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.
What is a sit-in?
100
This event started because Rosa Parks purposefully refused to give up her seat on a public bus.
What is The Montgomery Bus Boycott?
100
Brown vs. The Board of Education ruled this as unconstitutional.
What is segregation?
200
To withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
What is boycotting?
200
This special event included speakers like John Lewis and MLK Jr who spoke to thousands of assembled protesters.
What is The March on Washington?
200
This act passed by Lyndon B Johnson granted equal voting and citizenship rights to all people born in America.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1965?
300
Action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause; it normally consists of moving in a mass formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, to hear speakers.
What is marching?
300
This protest included three different marches, including Bloody Sunday and turnaround Tuesday/
What is the March to Selma?
300
These were desegregated after SNCC continued to do sit-ins and challenge the unfair segregation laws of the 1950's and 60's.
What are the Nashville Lunch Counters?
400
Industrial action by organized groups of people who either are on, or are trying to gather support for, a protest by assembling in a public place usually with signs.
What is Picketing?
400
These were bus-rides purposefully made from the North to the South with pairs of white and black civil rights activists in order to challenge segregation.
What are the Freedom Rides?
400
This man was a part of the March on Washington, The Freedom Rides, and the lunch counter sit-ins.
Who is John Lewis?
500
These are Ella Baker and Langston Hughes believed were the most important people in the Civil Rights Movement.
Who are the regular African Americans who joined the fight for a better life?
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