Civil Rights Movement

A NAACP attorney who went on to become Supreme Court Justice...

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• John Lewis

Group of students who began the integration of Central High School in Arkansas...

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Little Rock Nine

• Freedom Riders

A minister who becomes one of the leading voices of the civil rights movement...

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

A group organized to promote civil rights for African Americans through nonviolent protests...

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sit-ins

A NAACP member who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger...

• Betty Friedan

• Shirley Chisholm

• Rosa Parks

A ban of the Montgomery, AL public transportation system to protest its policy of segregation...

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Rides

• March

1954 Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in public schools...

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson's legislative plan of domestic reforms that include civil rights laws...

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Great Society

• Jim Crow Laws

A social movement that called for African American power and independence...

• March on Washington

• Freedom Rides

• Black Power

This law provided new powers to the federal government to protect African American's voting rights...

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Black Power

• Jim Crow Laws