Road to Civil Rights Reading - iCivics

This person was a third grader that helped change the laws about school segregation.

• Rosa Parks

• Linda Brown

• Barbara Jordan

• Michelle Obama

This person founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. He supported non-violent ways of protest.

• Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)

• Malcom X

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Thurgood Marshall

This person supported black independence and self-defense. He disagreed with other civil rights leaders who used non-violent methods.

• Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)

• Malcom X

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Thurgood Marshall

This person was President when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed which prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, and national origin.

• Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)

• Malcom X

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Thurgood Marshall

This person represented the Brown family in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. He later became the first African-American Justice on the Supreme Court.

• Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)

• Malcom X

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Thurgood Marshall

Prohibited discrimination based on race,

color, religion, gender, and national origin and included discrimination in the workplace, public places, schools, and in voting.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 24th Amendment

• Voting RIghts Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Education

Ended poll taxes so that states and local governments could no longer charge citizens to vote.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 24th Amendment

• Voting RIghts Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Education

Prohibited any restriction on the right to vote which included poll tests and voter intimidation.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 24th Amendment

• Voting RIghts Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Education

1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 24th Amendment

• Voting RIghts Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Education

Where a large group of protesters took to the street with signs, banners, songs, and chants.

• March

• Sit-in

• Boycott

• Court Case