People
Who delivered the "I have a dream" speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
When was slavery abolished?
1865
What was the name of the system that took slaves from Africa and brought them over to America?
the Atlantic Slave Trade
What's the name of the Act that prohibited Segregation?
Civil Rights Act
What was the name of the system that kept whites and colored people separate?
segregation
Who refused to give up her seat to a white male in 1955?
Rosa Parks
What year was the March on Washington (when MLK delivered his I have a dream speech)?
1963
What are the two names of the war that took place in the U.S. between 1861 and 1865?
the civil war / the secession war
What's the name of the decision that made segregation illegal in schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
Students used to have non-violent protests in restaurants. What were they called?
sit-ins
Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?
Abraham Lincoln
When was segregation finally outlawed (=made illegal)?
In 1964 with the Civil Rights Act
What was the name of the event that took place on August 28 1963?
the March on Washington
What's the name of the Supreme Court decision that made segregation legal?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the principle that made segregation constitutional according to the Supreme Court?
What's the name of the little girl going to school in Norman Rockwell's painting?
Ruby Bridges
What happened in 1955?
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white male in a segregated bus
What was the name of the event that lasted for a year after Rosa Parks' arrest?
the Montgomery Bus Boycott
What's the name of the decision that finally allowed marriage between white and colored people in 1967?
Loving v. Virginia
What was the name of the set of laws that legalized racial segregation?
the Jim Crow laws
Who signed the Civil Rights Act into law?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Name 3 symbolic dates in the abolition of segregation?
1954
1956
1964
1965
1967
What was the name of the people who would ride buses across segregated bus borders?
the Freedom Riders
What amendment to the constitution banned slavery in the U.S.?
Thirteenth Amendment
Name 3 peaceful ways the Civil Rights movement used to obtain equality
sit-ins
boycotts (eg the Montgomery Bus boycott)
marching (eg the March on Washington)
speeches (eg I have a dream)
desegregated bus rides (the Freedom Riders)