Historical Events in March

Who was John Lewis?

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• An American musician

• An American congressman

• An American civil rights leader in the 1960s

• Former President of the United States

Who is Barack Obama?

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• An American musician

• A former American congressman

• An American civil rights leader in the 1960s

• Former President of the United States

Who is Rosa Parks?

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• First young Black woman to attend an integrated high school in the United States

• A former American congresswoman

• An American civil rights leader in the 1960s

• Black woman who refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama

What happened in Selma, Alabama in March 1965?

• A series of marches for voting rights for Black Americans

• Sit-ins as protests to force the desegregation of lunch counters

• Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech

What happened in Washington D.C. in August of 1963?

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• The Voting Rights Act was passed

• It is the day the

  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

  happened

• It is the day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous, "I have a dream" speech

• Representing SNCC, John Lewis gave a speech & was the youngest speaker at the event

What did the Supreme Court decision "Brown vs. Board of Education" do?

• Declared it was unconstitutional to charge a poll tax

• Declared it was unconstitutional to segregate schools by race/ethnicity

• Declared it was unconstitutional to require students to attend school until the age of 18

Who was Emmett Till?

• A 14 year-old Black man lynched for saying hi to a white woman in her family grocery store in 1955

• A 14 year-old shot and killed by police in Minnesota for having Skittles in his hand in 2020

• The man who spoke before Martin Luther King Jr.

• A leader in the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1960s

What happened at Woolworth's in February of 1960?

• Nothing important

• There was a big sale that caused people to riot

• The first "sit-in" was conducted in protest of the store's segregation policy

• The civil rights movement groups, SNCC and NAACP, met there to plan protests

What form of protests does John Lewis participate in?

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• Sit-ins

• Riots

• Marches

• Boycotts

What term is best defined as "rights to personal liberty"?

• human rights

• civil rights

• 14th amendment