People
This woman refused to give up her seat on the bus and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
This type of protest involved black students sitting at and refusing to leave segregated lunch counters
Sit-in
This set of laws in the south enforced racial segregation and discrimination after Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws
This 1964 law banned segregation in public spaces and outlawed discrimination in employment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Civil Rights leader believed in non-violence and wrote "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"
Martin Luther King Jr.
This event had 9 black school children attempt to enter Central High School but were denied entry
Little Rock Nine
This group of activists rode interstate busses from the north into the south to challenge segregation on busses
Freedom Riders
In 1957 this governor ordered the National Guard to block black students from entering Central High School
This Supreme Court decision in 1896 upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine
Plessy v. Ferguson
This activist was brutally beaten on Bloody Sunday and later became a U.S. Congressman
John Lewis
This violent event on March 7, 1965 saw peaceful marchers attacked by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
Bloody Sunday
This 1965 march was organized to protest barriers to black voting rights
Selma March
Many southern states used these tests to block black citizens from registering to vote
Literacy Tests
This amendment abolished poll taxes, which had been used to prevent black citizens from voting
24th Amendment
This U.S. President signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson
This 1964 campaign focused on registering black voters in Mississippi, despite threats and violence
Freedom Summer
During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, black residents used these alternative transportation methods instead of city busses
Walking and Biking
This Alabama governor famously declared "segregation now, segregation forever"
George Wallace
This law gave the federal government the power to intervene in schools that refused to desegregate
Civil Rights Act of 1964
White supporter of Civil Rights who faced the white mob during a freedom ride and was brutally beaten
The murder of this 14-year-old black boy in 1955 helped spark national outrage and fuel in the Civil Rights Movement
Emmett Till
This yearlong boycott after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This governor refused to allow James Meredith to enroll in Ole Miss in 1962
Ross Barnett
This law pushed through Congress outlawing many of the discriminatory practices that had existed like literacy tests
1965 Civil Rights Act