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.

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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.

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

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

• march
• boycott
• sit in
• activist

Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Cesar Chavez

• Thurgood Marshall

More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

Senator who ran for President and was later assassinated. His older brother was a US president who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Robert Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

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