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Vocabulary
Important People
Other Civil Rights Groups
Civil Disobedience
Influential Acts/Laws
100
Policy or attitude that denies equal rights and treatment to certain groups of people.
What is discrimination
100
Gave an influential speech stating his dreams for the future and seeing an end to discrimination and segregation.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King.
100

1990 law that prohibits discrimination based on disability and imposes accessibility requirements on public accommodations and for businesses.

What is The Americans with Disabilities Act

100
Peaceful protest.
What is Civil Disobedience.
100
Basic freedoms guaranteed to citizens by the constitution.
What is civil rights.
200
To separate people on the basis of race, class, or ethnicity, or other differences.
What is segregation.
200

Sat down for an end to segregation by refusing to give up her seat to a white male - inspired over a year of protest in Montgomery AL.

Who is Rosa Parks.

200

As a labor leader, he organized a grape boycott in support of farm workers.

Cesar Chavez

200
People who were black and white rode the bus together into the deep south.
Who are the Freedom Riders.
200
Legislation passed by southern states in the 1800s and 1900s to force the segregation of races.
What is Jim Crow Laws.
300
An organization formed to protect the rights of African Americans. The mission was to ensure the political, educational, social and economic quality of rights of all people and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
300

Feminist, political activist, and editor who Articulate advocate of the women’s liberation movement. She founded Ms. Magazine

Who is Gloria Steinham.

300

This was occupied by the Indians of All Tribes as a protest in 1969.

What is Alcatraz

300
People did not ride the bus to protest segregation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
300
This act gave African American Men the right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
400
An assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy.
What is prejudice.
400

The president who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Who is John F. Kennedy.

400

Proposed to end legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment.

What is the Equal Rights Amendment

400
Sitting at an appropriate place and refusing to move. For example, sitting at an "All White" lunch counter.
What is a sit-in.
400
Outlawed major forms of discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
500

Protesting through non-violent methods to draw attention to your cause and make the opposition look like the enemy.

What is Civil Disobedience

500
An African American revolutionary group that believed in EXTREME anti-racism. This group was involved in the "Black Power Movement".
Who is the Black Panther Party.
500
This amendment was passed in 1868, which prohibited states from denying people their rights and due process. It calls for all people to have "equal protection of the laws."
What is the 14th Amendment.
500
During the protests, the police department, led by Eugene "Bull" Connor, used high-pressure water jets and police dogs to control protesters, including children.
What is the Birmingham campaign.
500
Railroads were required to provide ______ accomodation. This concept was overturned during Brown v. Board of Education.
What is "Seperate but Equal".