Civil Rights Movement

This bus boycott started after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus. It lasted 381 days.

• Montgomery bus boycott

• Freedom riders

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Who was the president of the United States who was known for working towards better education, and signed the Civil Rights into law?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Herbert Hoover

• Thomas Jefferson

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These laws were passes by Southern states following Reconstruction. Their purpose was to enforce racial segregation. 

• Jim Crow Laws

• Public Law

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This legislation was passed by Congress and signed by President Lyndon B Johnson. The act made it illegal to require African Americans to take literacy tests in order to vote.

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Oath Act

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African American attorney who argued the Brown vs. Board of Education case and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

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Legislation passed by Congress that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, or nationality.

• Embargo Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Judiciary Act

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Taxes required in order to vote elections.

• Poll tax

• Home tax

• Sales tax

This amendment to the U.S. Constitution band poll taxes as a condition for voting.

• 13th amendment

• 19th amendment

• 24th amendment

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