Civil Rights Review

Jim Crow

100

 legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to Plessy vs. Feguson, in which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

"Separate but Equal"

200

the term for social rules and expectations demanding how African Americans and whites would interact in Jim Crow America, directly translating to "of custom"

"De facto"

300

The term for "legal" Jim Crow laws, directly translating to "of the law"

"De Jurie"

400

The act of bringing into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution. AKA the process of desegregating schools and public facilities.

Integration

500

Homer Plessy of Plessy vs. Ferguson attempted to sit in a segregated train car in Louisiana. His lawyers argued that segregated train cars violated which two amendments? 

13th and 14th

Famous Figures

100

Widely regarded as the leader of the principle of nonviolent civil disobedience during the civil rights movement

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

200

Baltimore lawyer known for his work arguing for the desegregation of public schools in Brown v Board of Education

Thurgood Marshall

300

Chairman of the SNCC and later representative of Georgia. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

John Lewis

400

This artist created more than 50 paintings retelling the stories of Black Americans who migrated to northern cities like Chicago, New York, and Detroit during the Great Migration

Jacob Lawrence

500

This performer invented the "swivel hips" dance move 35 years before Elvis strutted it on the stage

Earl "Snakehips" Tucker

Match the Date

100

Plessy vs Ferguson

1896

200

Brown v Board

1954

300

13th Amendment

1865

400

14th Amendment

1868

500

15th amendment

1870