Groups
This organization, founded in 1909, focused on legal challenges to segregation.
What is the NAACP?
She refused to give up her bus seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This boycott lasted over a year and protested segregated buses.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This law banned segregation in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This group, led by Martin Luther King Jr., focused on nonviolent protest and had a national focus.
What is the SCLC?
She exposed the horrors of lynching through journalism.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This amendment guarantees equal protection under the law.
14th
These protests involved students sitting at segregated lunch counters.
Sit-ins
This law protected voting rights and prevented racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This student-led group organized sit-ins and voter registration drives.
What is SNCC?
She emphasized grassroots leadership and helped form SNCC.
Who is Ella Baker?
This Supreme Court case established “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
These rides challenged segregation on interstate buses.
Freedom Rides
MLK argued people have a moral duty to disobey these kinds of laws.
What are unjust laws?
This organization sponsored the Freedom Rides in 1961.
What is CORE?
He argued Brown v. Board of Education as a lawyer for the NAACP.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This Supreme Court case declared school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This event involved students integrating a high school in Arkansas.
Little Rock 9
In his speech, MLK compared America’s promises to this.
What is a bad check?
This organization coordinated national legislative efforts for civil rights laws.
What is the LCCR?
He was injured during Bloody Sunday and later became a major political leader.
Who is John Lewis?
This amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This violent event in Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act.
Bloody Sunday
This branch of government passes laws like the Civil Rights Act.
What is the legislative branch?