People
Person who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on the bus for a white man
Who is Rosa Parks
Location of the "I Have a Dream" speech
What is Washington DC
Huge civil rights movement/event in Washington DC
What is March on Washington
Amendment that declared slavery unlawful
What is 13th Amendment
This civil rights movement leader advocated the use of violence to help combat discrimination and police brutality against African Americans.
Who is Malcolm X
White terrorist group that harassed and killed African Americans in the South
Who is the KKK
Location of the Bus Boycotts during 1955 (city, state)
What is Montgomery, Alabama
Refusal to use a form of public transportation in protest against segregation
What is Bus Boycott
Name one of the ways African Americans were kept from exercising their right to vote in the south.
What is the literacy test, poll tax, grandfather clause
The word that means to be open to people of all races or ethnic groups
What is integrate
African American activists group that used violence to fight back against the police.
Who are the Black Panthers
State in which the Little Rock Nine enrolled in school
What is Arkansas
Protest in which African Americans would sit at white-only lunch counters demanding service
What are sit-ins
Laws meant to enforce separation of white and black people in public places in the South
What is Jim Crow Laws / Black Codes
Court case that ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional and called for the integration of schools in the South
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Group that was formed to help fight discrimination and earn more rights for American Americans.
What is the NAACP
Brown v. Board of Education took place in what city?
What is Topeka Kansas
This President was assassinated in 1963
Bonus: What city was he in?
Bonus 2: Who was the "gunman"?
Who is JFK
Dallas, TX
Lee Harvey Oswald
The court case that stated that "separate but equal" was constitutional when dealing with segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
The person that Martin Luther King Jr drew much of his inspirations from.
What is Mohandas Ghandi
First African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall
City in which Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
What is Memphis, TN
What did President Truman do to begin the Civil Rights Era?
What is desegregating the military
Law banning segregation in public places and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964
These were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
Who are the Freedom Riders