Civil Rights
Event that sparked the Civil Rights movement
What is Rosa Parks and the bus boycott
MLK's life ended tragically in this way
What is assassination
A statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something
What is to protest
Martin Luther King preached this type of protesting
What is non-violent
MLK was awarded this international prize in 1964 for his work
What is the Nobel Peace Prize
mid-20th century mass protest movement in the U.S. (roughly 1954-1968) to end racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement, primarily for African Americans
what is Civil Rights Movement
Which organization was watching MLK and labeled him as a communist and enemy of the state
What is the FBI
MLK was murdered this year
what is 1968
political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system in the city of a southern state
what is the Montgomery bus boycott
What was the name of the two laws that MLK helped to pass
What is the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act
This year was when Martin Luther King was day made a national holiday
what is 1983
a prolonged war in Southeast Asia where communist North Vietnam, supported by China and the Soviet Union, fought South Vietnam and its primary ally, the United States in the 1960s
What is the Vietnam War
MLK's Civil Rights Group
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This was the last state to observe MLK day
what is South Carolina
state and local statutes in the American South from the 1870s to the 1960s that enforced racial segregation and systemic discrimination, creating a rigid system of apartheid with "separate but equal"
what are Jim Crow Laws