People
Laws and Such...
Activist
WHATS THE MEANING?
MISC
100

Leader of the Non-Violent SNCC . Famous for his" I have a Dream "Speech

Martin Luther King Jr

100

2 word term used to describe the "Separate but Equal" situation in the South

Jim Crow

100

Lady who first said "No" to giving up her seat on the bus for a white patron

Rosa Parks

100

NAACP

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

100

NAME 3 Assassinations of the 1960's

JFK, RFK, Malcolm X, MLK

200

Name of President who desegrated the Military

Truman

200

Supreme Court CASE that eliminated the Separate but Equal legislation

Brown Vs. Board of Education

200

Well spoken leader of the Nation of Islam. Assassinated in harlem. Called for black separatism and later enlisted the help of whites and Christians

Malcolm X

200

KKK

Ku Klux Klan

200

Malcolm original last Name

Little

300

Name of the 14 year old boy who was lynched and his parents insisted on an open casket

Emmitt Till

300

Amendment that ended the Poll Tax

24th

300

City where the first Sit-in's happened

Greensboro

300

SCLC

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

300

Radical Black political group founded by Bobby Seale

Black Panthers

400

Founder of the Nation of Islam

Elijah Muhammed

400

Ended discrimination in Public theatres, restrooms, etc

Civil Rights Act

400

City where Rosa Parks and MLK protested against the busing boycott

Montgomery

400

SNCC

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

400

" Mr. Civil Rights" for his lawyering in front of the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall

500

First person of color to integrate the University of Mississippi

James Meredith
500

Help Enfranchise millions of African-Americans by abolishing Grandfather clause, Literacy tests, etc

Voting Rights Act

500

First attempt at integrating a southern school. 9 students were enrolled in the Central High School of this City

Little Rock, Arkansas

500

CORE

Congress of Racial Equality

500

"Sunday, Bloody Sunday" happened at this site in Alabama. The_________________March

Selma