Civil Rights Vocab

Question 1

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 1

A NAACP attorney who later became a Supreme Court justice

Question 2

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 2

In the early 1950, five school segregation case from Delaware, Kansas, D.C. came together under the title Brown vs. the board of education.

Question 3

Little Rock Nine

Answer 3

One high school Allowed African American students attend a whit school in Little Rock Arkansas.

Question 4

Rosa parks

Answer 4

Rosa Parks boarded a bus and sat in the black section but when the bus filled up the driver asked Rosa and three other African Americans to move and Rosa refused and was arrested.

Question 5

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 5

This is when thousands of African American didn’t ride the bus for over a year when Rosa Parks was arrested. The did this as a protest.

Question 6

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 6

A babysitter minister who had a reputation for being a powerful speaker organized non violet protest and was in my opinion the most influential people in the Civil Rights Movement

Question 7

Sit in

Answer 7

A demonstration of protest where people come into a segregated restraint and refuse to leave

Question 8

SNCC

Answer 8

To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the student protest formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee