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was a well-known civil rights leader who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.

(You can use initials)

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK, JR.)

100

This event helped end bus segregation 

 Montgomery Bus Boycott

100

This is the act of separating people by race

Segregation

100

City where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat 

Montgomery, Alabama
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In Leon's Story, how would you describe Leon's first school

It was run-down, card board windows, teacher made lunch on a stove. 

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Known for refusing to give up her seat which lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Who is Rosa Parks?

200

This lawsuit started by the family of Linda Brown, a young African American student in Kansas, had by 1954 reached the Supreme Court where it was decided that school segregation was illegal. 

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

200

This is the act of combining racial groups

integration

200

City where Martin Luther King gave his "I have a Dream" speech

Washington, D.C.

200

This person worked to get women the right to vote

Susan B. Anthony

300

This person used the Underground Railroad to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom

Who is Harriet Tubman?

300

This march took place on Sunday, March 7, 1965. It started peaceful, but was broken up by police and other people who attacked the marchers. This has become known as this day. 

What is Bloody Sunday?

300

This worker travels from place to place looking for jobs

Who is a migrant worker?

300

Where Ruby Bridges integrated the first school in Louisiana

New Orleans

300

Examples of this type of protest include boycotts, sit-ins, and marches. 

non-violent protest

400

She help integrate the first school in New Orleans, Louisiana when she was only 6 years old. 

Who was Ruby Bridges?

400

Martin Luther King lead a voting rights march just weeks after another march for had been violently stopped by police. The march was over 50 miles from Selma to this city in Alabama. 

What is Montgomery?

400

Refusing to use or buy a service or good from a company

What is a boycott?

400

This city saw two marches, one that ended violently and another one that continued for 50 plus miles before ending in Montgomery, Alabama

Selma
400

The means the right to vote

Suffrage

500

Was a leader for migrant workers rights during the 1960s and 70s by leading first a strike and then a years long grape boycott

Who was Cesar Chavez?

500

This march, in August 1963, saw Martin Luther King, Jr. give his "I have a Dream" Speech and helped pass the 1964 Civil Rights law that ended segregation in the United States. 

What was the March on Washington

500

The act of sitting for long periods in a place, like a restaurant, to protest

What is a sit-in?
500

Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled to this city to help its sanitation workers when he was shot and killed. 

Memphis, Tennessee

500

This president helped pass two civil rights bills in the 1960s

Lyndon B. Johnson