Civil rights

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.

• to pay black people less than white people.

• to return a slave.

• to segregate schools.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.

• deny someone of a job because of their race.

• fire someone for not doing their job.

• kick someone out of the military.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people

• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal

Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage    

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black nationalist leader who for awhile was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam; talked about black freedom “by any means necessary;” was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in NYC by Nation of Islam members  

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte

• Barack Obama

• Martin Luther King, Jr. 

• Jesse Jackson

Keeping things or people SEparate

• prejudice

• union

• confederate

• segregation

A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product?

• march

• boycott

• sit in

• activist