Vocabulary
Laws that separated blacks and whites in every aspect of life.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This restaurant was desegregated as a result of four teens doing sit-ins at this restaurant.
What is the Varsity?
Who is Linda Brown?
Alabama
What is the location of the Bus Boycott started by Rosa Parks?
Signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson, this law was designed to protect the rights of African-Americans at the polls.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
What is an ordinance?
The first African American to attend and graduate from the University of Georgia.
Who is Charlane Hunter-Gault
The first African-American Supreme Court Justice. He was the lawyer from Linda Brown.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Rosa Parks
Who is the woman who was chosen to start the bus boycott in Alabama?
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grand father clauses.
What were tactics used to prevent black people from exercising their right to vote?
A word that means the same thing as less than?
What is inferior?
The land for this cemetary was purchased because black and white people could not be buried together when they died.
What is Gospel Pilgrim Cemetary
First African-American child to attend an all white school in the South.
Who was Ruby Bridges?
Segregation on buses was illegal
What is the ruling that came as result of the Alabama bus boyott?
Signed into law by John F. Kennedy, this law prohibited discrimination in public places and places of employment in the United States.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
To treat some one unkindly based on their race.
What is discrimination?
This woman, buried in Gospel Pilgrim Cemetary, was known for the beautiful quilts she made.
Who is Harriet Powers?
The ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education?
What was segregated schools cannot be equal;they violate the 14th amendment?
Peaceful form of political protest used by Dr. Martin Luther King and others during the Civil Rights movement.
What is civil disobedience?
Attended by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,. this event was a determining factor that led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act.
What was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
An original object or document that provides first hand information about an event or a topic.
What is a primary source document?
This all black school whose building still stands on Reese Street in Athens, was the first accredited black High School in Georgia.
What is Athens High and Industrial School?
This Court case, which established the separate, but equal doctrine, was overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Twelve.
The assignation of this President led to violence and Civil unrest in the United States.
Who is President John F. Kennedy