Civil Rights

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

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After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• John F. Kennedy

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte
• Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Jesse Jackson

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More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964