Civil Rights People
An African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger
Rosa Parks
The separation of races
Segregation
The name of the 1 year long protest that was started by Rosa Parks' arrest
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The President who sent in the National Guard to enforce the law allowing desegregation.
Dwight Eisenhower
Bringing all the races together to work as one
Integration
Sets of mainly Southern Laws that legalised segregation (separate but equal)
The Jim Crow Laws
The name given to the nine African-American students who were the first to attend an all white school in Arkansas
The Little Rock Nine
People who worked towards social change were called....?
Activists
What was the ruling in 'Plessy vs Ferguson'?
Separate but Equal
A Civil Rights leader famous for his 'I have a Dream' speech
Martin Luther King Jnr
These people traveled by bus across the states to bring awareness to the civil rights movement
The Freedom Riders
Supreme court case that declared 'Separate was unequal' which led to school integration
Brown vs Board of Education