Leaders
Born January 15, 1929, I attended Morehouse College in my home town Atlanta after I graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. I said, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
This court case declared separate but equal unconstitutional.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
381 days where no African Americans rode city busses.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
Term for the group of students that the federal government hesitated to help integrate into Central High School.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Separating people based on the color of their skin.
What is segregation?
He was assassinated in Texas Nov. 22, 1963 in a mobile.
Who is President Kennedy?
This means the blending of all people as equals; the opposite of segregation.
What is integration?
Method of protest in which college students protested segregation at lunch counters by sitting at “whites only” counters and refusing to leave.
What is sit-ins?
A 1960 protest in which four black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter in a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and demanded service.
What was the Greensboro sit-ins?
The use of peaceful ways to bring about change?
What is nonviolence?
I am known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. I also sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The primary goals of the Civil Rights movement were to end this.
What is to end racial segregation and secure equal rights for all Americans.
The year that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
What is 1968?
What year was Emmett Till killed for whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi?
What is 1955.
The bringing together of people of all races.
What is integration?
This person signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is President Johnson?
List two effects of Segregation.
Separate public facilities like bathrooms, separate educational facilities like schools.
In 1963, 250,000 people marched on Washington for what reason?
What is to pass civil rights laws?
What event is generally acknowledged as the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
the rights guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution.
What is civil rights?
This lawyer for the NAACP successfully argued that segregation in public schools was psychologically damaging for African American students, and should be illegal in Brown v. Board of Education
Who is Thurgood Marshall
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination on hiring based on what? (Name all 4)
What is Race, Color, National Origin, and Religion?
Seven African American students and six white students left from Washington D.C on May 4, 1961 in hopes for desegregation.
What are Freedom Rides?
What was the last name of the girl in Topeka, Kansas who wanted to desegregate schools?
Who is Brown?
The meaning of NAACP.
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?