Civil Rights Movement

This is the act of bringing racial groups together in a community.

• Segregation

• Integration

• Ordinance

• Blockade

This person led a bus boycott and delivered a famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

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

• March on Washington

• Migrant Workers Strike

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Brown vs. Board of Education

This act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, or nationality.

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Equal Pay Act

• Social Security Act

This president of the United States was known for working towards better education, unemployment, and signed the Civil Rights Act into law.

• Thurgood Marshall

• John F. Kennedy

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Lyndon B. Johnson

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

• Thurgood Marshall

• John F. Kennedy

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Lyndon B. Johnson

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

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Equal Pay Act

• Social Security Act

These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

• Voter ID Laws

• Liberty Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Walker Laws

This third grade student walked one mile through a railroad switchyard to get to her black elementary school.

• Rosa Parks

• Amelia Earhart

• Harriet Tubman

• Linda Brown

This person was arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Harriet Tubman

• Amelia Earhart

• Linda Brown

• Rosa Parks