Civil Rights People
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Mongomery, AL bus
Rosa Parks
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
What is it called when we keep separate?
Segregation
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
The court case that Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP moved to desegregate schools
Brown v. Board
Who is considered to be the greatest Native American athlete
Jim Thorpe
1st African American MLB Baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Amendment that granted black MEN the right to vote
15th Amendment
Sets of laws in the south that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Bus Boycott
Banned discrimination in employment and public accommodations
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Daily Double:
Which president signed the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
First African American to be admitted into Ole Miss 1962
James Meredith
Supreme Court Case that made interracial marriages legal
Loving v Virginia
Integration
The attempt to register black Mississippians to vote in the summer of 1964 is referred to as
Freedom Summer
Also called the Fair Housing Act
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Native Americans were forcibly marched to move to settlements in Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
lead lawyer in school desegregation; supreme court justice.
Thurgood Marshall
Civil Rights Act that made it illegal for states to interfere in voting rights--YEAR
1965
Malcom X and Stokely Carmichael were more controversial leaders of the movement and differed from MLK Jr in that they supported the idea that it was ok/necessary to sometimes react by
fighting back/use of violence
The young people who rode integrated buses through the south and were often attacked or arrested became known as
Freedom Riders
Banned discrimination in employment and public accommodations
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Name 3 Native American Tribes that
Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole
Civil Rights leader best known for use of Civil Disobedience, I Have a Dream speech, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Selma marches, etc
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
Civil Rights Act (YEAR) that made housing discrimination illegal
1968
The murder of this young man in Mississippi was a motivation for the start of Civil Rights Movement
Emmett Till
Promoted by Ghandi, King and others--The belief that it can be justified to break UNFAIR laws is known as "Civil ________"
Disobedience
Voting Rights Act of 1965
True or False
\Are most Native Americans that live on reservations considered dual-citizens
True