She refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
1963 demonstration in which 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights
What is the March on Washington?
This is the number of sheep that Moses had on the Arc.
What is zero?
outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
He ordered the state troopers and police to intervene and protect the freedom riders.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
He was a civil rights leader who advocated nonviolent protest against segregation.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
1961 protest by activists who rode buses through southern states to test the ban on rider segregation on interstate buses
What is freedom ride?
This is the amount of wood a woodchuck can chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
What is it can never be known?
law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
He was a radical African American leader who believed in, "any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
a 1960s movement that urged African Americans to use their collective political and economic power to gain equality
What is black power?
Mixing the colors red and blue creates this color.
What is purple?
law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
He desegregated the military in 1948.
Who is Harry Truman?
He is the Supreme Court Chief Justice who wrote the decision that ended segregation in public schools.
Who is Earl Warren?
segregation that is imposed by law
What is de jure segregation?
He was the 40th president of the United States.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
He sent troops to Little Rock to enforce the Brown decision.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
He blocked the schoolhouse door in Alabama.
Who is Governor George Wallace?
Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
It is the nickname of Pennsylvania
What is the Keystone state?
banned the poll tax as a voting requirement
What is the 24th Amendment?
His administration formally established affirmative action to close the economic gap between blacks and whites.
Who is Richard Nixon?