Civil Rights Study Guide

The Separation of people either on the color of their skin.

• Segregation

• Religious isolation
• Cultural separation
• Discrimination

The act of being mean and taking things away from someone or a group of people for no reason.

• Segregation

• Discrimination

• Right

• Civil Rights

True or False:

A reasonability is something a person allowed to do.

• True

• False

The rights guaranteed to a person by the government

• Segregation

• Right

• Civil Rights

• Boycott

A time in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, when people fought for equal rights and justice for all people no matter their skin color.

• Freedom Riders

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Movement

• Right

A boycott organized by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1954 where African Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery, Alabama because Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. People boycotted the buses until the Supreme Court said that segregation on public transportation such as buses was illegal.

• Atlanta Bus Boycott
• Birmingham Bus Boycott
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Selma Bus Boycott

In 1961, there was a group of African Americans (as many as 1,000) at one point who wanted to see if the buses and trains were desegregated by riding on buses all over the South. They brought attention to the Civil Rights Movement. They had to deal with a lot of violence from racist people.

• Equality Riders
• Freedom Riders
• Liberty Riders
• Justice Riders

A largely peaceful protest organized by Martin Luther King Jr. where 250,000 people marched in Washington D.C. asking for justice and equality for all people no matter their skin color. This event brought a lot of attention to the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” during the event.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

• March on Montgomery

of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
• Davis v. Board of Education of Topeka
• Johnson v. Board of Education of Topeka
• Smith v. Board of Education of Topeka

A famous African American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, set up the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King

• Cesar Chaves