Cities
This city is where Dr. Martin Luther King jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" Speech
What is Washington DC?
Not a real person, but a racist minstrel show that segregation laws were named after.
What is Jim Crow?
This President signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)?
This type of nonviolent protest was centered around lunch counters.
What are sit-ins?
This city is where leaders orchestrated a protest with a large amount of children.
What is Birmingham?
This 14 year old from Chicago was murdered in in Mississippi, a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Emmett Till?
This law was a huge legislative win for the Civil Rights movement, outlawing racial discrimination. (include the year)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This protest included mixed race groups of students traveled throughout the South to get the federal government to enforce desegregation laws in interstate travel.
What were freedom rides?
This city is where John Lewis led protests for Voting Rights
What is Selma?
She was not the first person to not give up her seat on the bus, but she is the most famous.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Consolidated under a case in Kansas, the case kicked off the Civil Rights Movement
What is Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeaka?
This Civil Rights activist organized Selma and later served 17 terms in Congress.
This city is where some of the first school integration happened.
What is Little Rock?
This person proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is JFK?
The March on Washington was protesting for this law, in debate in Congress at the time
What is the Civil Rights Act ?
Black people in this city boycotted the downtown shops, eventually the Mayor decided to support them.
What is Nashville?
This is where Claudette Colvin did not give up her seat.
What is Montgomery?
Who were MLK and RFK
The latin definition of De Jure.
What is "concerning the law?"
What is her name?
Who was Hazel Bryan?