Protesting
Following the arrest of Rosa Parks black leaders, like Martin Luther King organized a certain type of protest in Alabama.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The person who was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Rosa Parks
Taxes people needed to pay in order to vote.
Poll Taxes
The amendment that gave voting rights to black men and made it illegal to prevent citizens from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement.
The 15th Amendment
In 1872, a women tried to vote in a presidential election, knowing it was against the law, to make a point about women's rights.
Susan B Anthony
The names of the songs representative of the Civil Rights Movement and were often sung at protests.
Freedom Songs
The six year old girl who was the first black student to attend an all-white elementary school in the south in 1960.
Ruby Bridges
The name of the laws passed by many states immediately after the Civil War that restricted the freedom and movement of Black people and limited the jobs that they could hold.
Black Codes
The act that ended segregation in all public places.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A public execution by a mob, to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others.
Lynching
What were the rides called when in 1961 black and white people rode busses and train together through southern states to protest segregation.
Freedom Rides
Who gave the famous "I have a dreams" speech at the March of Washington in 1963.
MLK Jr.
What act or law banned racial discrimination in voting including literacy tests and voter intimidation.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The term for organizations formed to improve working conditions for workers.
Labor Unions
He advocated for Black self-determination and racial pride and emphasized the right to self-defense and the need for Black people to take control of their own destinies.
Malcolm X
The refusal to work as form of protest.
A Strike
The person who founded the National Women's Party and used extreme means like hunger strike to advocate for women's right to vote.
Alice Paul
The Supreme Court decision allowed "separated but equal" to continue.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
A shop or factory where workers are paid very little and work many hours in very bad conditions.
Sweatshops
The post-civil war era in the United States that was named after a got its name from a minstrel show character.
Jim-Crow Era
The name of the document that the women's suffragist movement wrote to declare their own freedoms.
Declaration of Sentiments
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute, and all black trade school in Alabama and fought for equality for African Americans.
Booker T. Washington
The Supreme Court decision said that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
Brown vs. Board of Education
To sign something to show you approve or agree.
Ratify
Who sang the song and wrote the poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" a powerful statement about the Civil Rights Movement and the often-distorted or incomplete portrayal of it by the media.
Gil-Scott Heron