Important people of the Civil Rights movement
Person Famous for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus.
Rosa Parks or Claudette Colvin
What was the ruling that caused segregation in education that is eventually over turned?
Plessy v. Ferguson ruling
A group of students who used a sit-in to protest segregation in Woolworth stores
Who were the Greensboro 4
250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. to ask Congress to make a law that would give African Americans equal rights and quality education.
What was The March on Washington
The refusal to buy or use products or services to protest practices that are regarded as unfair.
What is a boycott?
A leader of the SNCC who played a crucial role in the Freedom Rides, was a speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and was beaten on Bloody Sunday in Selma AL.
Who was John Lewis
What was the name of the Ruling that talked about segregating education?
Brown v. Board of Education ruling
an African American revolutionary organization that's purpose was to patrol Black neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality.
What was the Black Panther Party?
This was the name for when young civil rights workers from all over the country went around riding buses throughout the south testing the desegregation of the bussing system.
What was the Freedom Rides?
the act of expressing disapproval through a statement or action without the use of violence.
What are non-violent protests
Who was known for being called the "mother of the civil rights movement"?
Rosa Parks
20213 Supreme Court decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is Shelby County v. Holder
The group of Black students who were the first to attend Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas
Who was the Little Rock 9
This person was assassinated on April 4th, 1968?
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.
The unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation.
What is discrimination?
Known for protesting against the Jim Crow laws and getting assassinated on his driveway in front of his family.
Medgar Evers
Passed in 1965, it banned literacy tests for voting.
What was the Voting Rights Act
an African-American civil rights organization started by James Farmer in 1942 to protest segregation.
What was the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)
This protest took place in response to segregation on busses in Alabama.
What was The Montgomery bus boycott
The Right to vote
What is Suffrage?
Person known for the "I have a Dream Speech"
Martin Luther King Jr.
The most comprehensive piece of legislation passed by Congress dealing with civil rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
a civil rights organization in the United States formed as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by taking cases to court to end segregation.
What is the NAACP?
Rosa Parks arrest led to this 1 year protest
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender.
What was Segregation?