Road to Civil Rights
Early Civil Rights
1960s
Martin and Malcolm
Late Civil Rights
100

This made slavery illegal except as a punishment for a crime

13th Amendment

100

This Supreme Court case stated that separate schools were by nature not equal

Brown v Board of Education

100

This man was the most famous of member of the United Farm Workers

Cesar Chavez

100

This leader pushed for Black Nationalism and was assassinated in 1965

Malcolm X
100

JFK was assassinated in 1963 in this city

Dallas, Texas

200

This is the period of time after the Civil War that attempted to integrate society

Reconstruction

200

This is the group of African American high schoolers that was forced into a previously all white Arkansas school

Little Rock 9

200

This was the primary form of protest used by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Sit-In

200

MLK was the lead speaker at the end of this major protest in D.C.

March on Washington

200

The 36th President, who signed two major pieces of Civil Rights legislation, was named...

Lyndon B Johnson

300

This provided a path to citizenship and also said that all people are equal under the law

14th Amendment

300

Eisenhower signed a Civil Rights Act in this year

1957

300

These 1969 riots led to the spread and wider support for the gay liberation movement

Stonewall Riots

300

This is the highest degree MLK earned from university and in what subject

PhD in Theology

300

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed literacy tests for voting and this important thing in all public places

Segregation

400

Jim Crow was a series of legal segregation laws, supported by this Supreme Court Case

Plessy v. Ferguson

400

Mr. Loye's favorite public speaker and the head of SNCC in the late 1960s

Stokely Carmichael

400

Brother to JFK and a friend of the civil rights movement that was assassinated in 1968

Robert or Bobby Kennedy

400

MLK gave his I Have a Dream Speech in front of this landmark

Lincoln Memorial

400

This piece of legislation made all voting laws fair and equal for all people (full name)

Voting Rights Act of 1965