Civil Rights Movement

The _____ Rights Movement sought to provide equal rights and opportunities for everyone, regardless of race or gender.

The Supreme Court case of _____ vs. Ferguson (1896) said that "separate but equal" was legal.

Barbara _____ was a junior at Moton High School in Farmville, VA who led a student walkout over poor conditions in 1951.

Jim ____ laws were put in place in the South for nearly 100 years after the Civil War to segregate African Americans.

Jackie _______ was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB).

The Supreme Court case of _____ vs. the Board of Education said that school segregation was unconsitutional.

Emmett ____ was a 14 year-old African American boy from Chicago who was killed while visiting his family in Mississippi in 1955.

Martin Luther ____, Jr. was the voice of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Claudette ______ was a 15 year-old African American girl who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in March 1955.

Rosa _____ refused to give up her seat to a white man in December 1955, sparking off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.