key figures
Who gave the I Have a Dream speech?
Martin Luther King Jr
What is the montgomery bus boycott
It is an event that sparked Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat, lasted for over a year and was a pivital moment in the American cival rights movment
where was MLK assasinated
St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis Tennessee
This athlete broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 when he became the first African American to play in the modern era, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers. Who is he
Jackie Robinson
What is the act that prohibited discriminatory voting practices
Voting Rights Act of 1964
Where was the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Alabama
This woman is known as the mother of civil rights movement.
rosa parks
what was the selma march
series of protest marches in 1965 in Alabama, led by civil rights leaders, that aimed to advocate for voting rights for African Americans
where was Emmitt Till killed
Sumner, Mississippi
who is Malcom x
he is the cival rights leader originaly named for black empowerment and his role in the nation of islam befor he became a more mainstream cival rights figure
How many people attended the march of washington
hint- no more than 300,000
250,000 people
who is thurgood marchallhe
he is a lawyer that argues the landmake case brom vs bored of educationj befor the supreame court and later became the first. African American supreme court justice.
What year was the brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court case
may 17, 1954