Key Figure
The famous Civil Rights Movement leader who gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
The president who ordered Birmingham to integrate.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This court case ended legal segregation in schools and public facilities.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This person refused to give up their seat to a white man and her arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The president who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This word means the separation of racial groups in daily lives. It was commonly practiced in the South and could include bathrooms, water fountains, etc.
What is segregation?
where college students and other young people waited in protest for many days to help fight against segregation.
What are sit-ins?
This African American was the lead attorney for the NAACP and was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The president who resigned due to the Watergate Scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The first Elementary student to Integrate into an all white school.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
People who took action for political goals.
Who are activists?
The President who followed Nixon and pardoned him.
Who is Gerald Ford?
States implemented this to make whites eligible to vote even if they didn't meet the voter restrictions including the poll tax or literacy test.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
These took place during the Summer of 1961 and were met with extreme violence, including one where their bus was burned.
What are Freedom Rides?
A leader in the African community who believed blacks needed to take control of their own lives.
Who is Malcom X?
The president who was interested in strengthening human rights around the world.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Why "Separate but equal" was not Equal.
What is less federal funding for all African American Schools?
These students earned this name after they were the first African American students to enter this high school.
Who is the Little Rock Nine.