Civil Rights Movement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Martin Luther (a)   , Jr. was the voice of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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

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