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Unfair laws begun after Reconstruction that included segregation and voting restrictions.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Called the mother of the Civil Rights Movement, she was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man.
Who was Rosa Parks?
MLK gave his famous speech in Washington DC on the steps of this famous monument.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
During this year long protest, many people carpooled to work instead of riding public transportation.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
A black girl in Kansas who had to walk a mile to school every day instead of being able to attend the school for white kids, which was much closer.
Who is Linda Brown?
The practice of keeping people separated in public places, including movie theatres, schools, buses, restaraunts, and bathrooms.
What is segregation?
For this protest, over a quarter of a million people showed up at the National Mall.
What is the March on Washington DC?
This senator and former attorney general was assassinated while running for president in 1968.
Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
This famous president was assassinated in Dallas, TX in 1963.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
Founding member of the KKK who had unfair, racist laws named after him.
Who was James Crow?
To keep black people from voting, they may have been charged this.
What is a pole tax?
This famous law ended poll taxes and literacy tests.
What was the Voting Rights Act?
To keep black people from voting, they may have had to take one of these.
What is a literacy test?
After the Kennedy assassination, this president signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
I gave a famous speech called "I Have a Dream."
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The social and political movement that fought to make life fair for all people in the 1950s and 60s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This invention changed how people got their news and entertainment.
What was television?
The space race, beginning with the launch of Sputnik II and culminating with the lunar landing, was between the US and this other world super power.
What was the USSR?
This famous civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, TN in 1968.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The first black girl to attend an all whites school in Arkansas.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
The court case in which SCOTUS ruled against segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs. the board of education?
This famous law ended segregation and discrimination based on race.
What was the Civil Rights Act?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed, much like Mahatma Gandhi, that political protests must be like this.
What is nonviolent?
This famous president met with MLK after the March on Washington to discuss civil rights.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
I was a lawyer in the Brown vs. the board of education case, and later became a Supreme Court Justice.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?