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Best known leader of Civil Rights Movement, who helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
The separation of groups of people by race.
What is segregation?
100
This resulted in "separate but equal" being found unconstitutional. Schools would now have to integrate.
What is the Brown vs. Board of Education case?
100

A technological development that changed American life in the 1960's.

What is television?

200

Lawyer who worked for equal rights of African Americans. He played a key role in the Brown vs. BOE decision.

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

200
The opposite of separating groups of people by race; ending segregation.
What is desegregation?
200
Three ways in which Martin Luther King, Jr. urged people to protest.
What are peaceful sit-ins, speeches, and marches?
200

The year that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

What is 1969?

300

Father of Linda Brown, who sued the board of education in Topeka, Kansas because the schools were segregated.

Who is Oliver Brown?

300
The full equality and inclusion of all races as equals in a group.
What is integration?
300

In 1964, The March on Washington got the government's attention and Congress soon passed this act.

What is the Civil Rights Act?

300
Led by Harry F. Byrd, schools were closed to avoid attendance of blacks. This failed in 1959.
What is Massive Resistance?
400

President who was shot in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 163 while riding in a convertible car during a parade.

Who is John F. Kennedy?

400
The unfair difference in treatment of people due to their background, race, or religion.
What is discrimination?
400

What NAACP stands for.

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

400

The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination against any American because of what three things?

Race, Color or religion

500

Younger brother of President Kennedy who was assassinated at a hotel in Los Angeles, California on June 5, 1968.

Who is Robert F. Kennedy?

500
Avoiding or not using a product or service.
What is boycott?
500

Congress passed this in 1965, making poll taxes and literacy tests illegal.

What is the Voting Rights Act?

500

Rights of citizens to equal treatment.

What are Civil Rights?