CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Leaders

1

African American famous for breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball

Jackie Robinson

2

She refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus

Rosa Parks

3

African American lawyer who worked with the NAACP and became a Supreme Court justice

Thurgood Marshall

4

While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to this religion

Islam

5

The Baptist minister who led numerous nonviolent protests and is often considered the face of the Civil Rights movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Laws

1

These were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races in the South

Jim Crow laws

2

This law banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

3

This addition to the Constitution banned poll taxes

24th Amendment

4

This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Johnson

5

This outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or origin.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Terms

1

This refers to the forced separation of different races.

Segregation

2

This is a form of civil disobedience where protestors sit and refuse to move.

sit-in

3

The 1960s movement for African Americans to use political/economic power to gain equality.

Black power

4

This was segregation based on the law and practiced in the South

De jure segregation

5

This is segregation by tradition, practice, or custom that was practiced in the North.

De facto segregation

Events

1

This boycott of the public transportation system in Alabama was started by Rosa Parks.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

2

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted this long.

1 year

3

This was the rally of 200,000 people in 1963 for economic and civil rights.

March on Washington

4

This was the 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi.

Freedom Summer

5

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in this case that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

Misc.

1

This was a militant African American group founded in 1966 to protect black neighborhoods.

Black Panthers

2

Teams of people who traveled into the south on buses challenging segregation laws

Freedom Riders

3

This president desegregated the military in 1948.

Truman

4

President Eisenhower sent federal troops to this city to protect African American high school students.

Little Rock, AR

5

This civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)