MLK Study guide

The name of the system that allowed African-Americans to be treated differently and unfairly

• Segregation/ segregate

• Civil rights

• congress

• ballons

Freedoms that all citizens (people) are owed (examples: voting, speech, religion, education, a fair trail)

• civil rights

• strike

• congress

• cookies

The time period in US history when MLK and others fought for the equal rights of African Americans (1960s)

• Civil Rights Movement

• liberty

• clipboard

• boycott

When laws changed and segregation was made illegal (the different races were joined together)

• Desegregation/ Desegregate

• Integration/ Integrate

• segregation/ segregate

• crayons

The process of ending segregation

• strike

• ending

• Integration/ Integrate

• liberty

Elected official in the US who make our nation's laws

• The Queen

• congress

• civil rights

• segregation/ segregate

When citizen stop buying something in order to make a change (the bus boycott to end segregation)

• blueberries

• congress

• civil rights movement

• boycott

When workers stop working in order to achieve a goal (AA sanitation workers stopped working in order to get fair treatment

• liberty

• stop sign

• boycott

• strike

freedom

• leggings

• civil rights

• congress

• liberty