Civil Rights

A Civil Rights leader who helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Malcolm X

• Barack Obama

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

A Civil Rights leader who believed in nonviolent protests.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Ruby Bridges

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Civil Rights leader who believed that African Americans should take more direct methods to get there civil rights, but later changed his mind and believed that whites and blacks would have to work together to have equality.

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

• John Lewis

Non-violent protest, where African Americans sat in the white only sections of restaurants.

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Marches

• Sit-ins

• Freedom Gardens

A Civil Rights Movement that involved over 200,000 African Americans and White citizens gathering in Washington D.C.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• March on Washington

• Red Scare

• The Washington Jamboree

Bus rides taken by African Americans and Whites into the Deep South to test the segregated interstate bus laws.

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Sit-ins

• Freedom Rides

Amendment that freed all slaves.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

The Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship rights and equal protection under the law.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

The Amendment that gave African Americans males voting rights.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

The President who sent laws to congress that would improve the civil rights of African Americans. He was assassinated before the laws went into effect.

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson