Nonviolence
This American civil rights leader championed the cause of equality through nonviolent means and delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This federal health insurance program is available for individuals 65 and older and those with disabilities.
What is Medicare?
This federal holiday celebrates the date on which Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas in 1865.
What is Juneteenth?
These ecosystems, found near the equator, are known for their high biodiversity and constant warm temperatures and ability to absorb massive amounts of carbon.
What are tropical rainforests?
This is the number of Western industrialized countries that use the death penalty.
What is one? (the United States)
Rosa Parks’ decision not to give up her seat led to this protest.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
For this type of housing, a person pays no more than 30 percent of their gross income for housing costs, including utilities.
What is affordable housing?
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that this practice in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is segregation?
The loss of biodiversity is a significant impact of climate change, causing bleaching of these ocean ecosystems.
What are coral reefs?
This international body was established in 1945 and creates policies that make the respect of human rights an international priority.
What is the United Nations?
This nonviolent tactic involves workers refusing to work as a form of protest, often to gain better conditions or wages.
What is a strike?
These types of agencies rescue billions of pounds of food processed by big corporations from being disposed of in landfills while offering non-profits affordable options to feed people who are experiencing food insecurity.
What is a food bank?
This discriminatory practice consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
What is redlining?
Climate change has led to the proliferation of this insect that spreads Dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus.
What is a mosquito?
This is a form of protection that allows people to remain in a foreign country instead of being deported to a place where they fear persecution in another country.
What is asylum?
This movement, led by Cesar Chavez, used nonviolent tactics to secure better working conditions for farm workers in the United States.
What is the United Farm Workers movement?
Commonly known as “food stamps,” this federal program provides important nutritional support for low-paid working families, low-income older adults and people with disabilities living on fixed incomes, and other individuals and households with low incomes.
What is SNAP?
Known as being anti-Black, this American group was also antisemitic, anti-Catholic, and nativist.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This phenomenon, caused by increased greenhouse gases, leads to a gradual rise in Earth's average temperature.
What is global warming?
This global treaty outlawed nuclear weapons but has not been adopted by any nuclear-armed states.
What is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?
This economic grassroots movement was used successfully to dismantle apartheid in South Africa in the late 1900’s.
What is boycott, divest, and sanction? (BDS)
The name given to a geographic area where residents' access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is rare or non-existent.
What is a food desert?
This group experienced increased racism and hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who are Asians and Asian Americans?
This international agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This Pakistani teenager survived an assassination attempt after she bravely spoke out against Taliban Pakistan's ban on the education of girls.
Who Is Malala Yousafzai?