A) Civil Rights Act of 1965 B) “March on Washington” C) Emmitt Till
D). Bloody Sunday E). Civil Rights Movement F). Plessy vs. Ferguson
G). Freedom Riders H). Woolworth Lunch Counter I). Little Rock Nine
J). Brown vs. Board of Education K). 16 th St. Baptist Church bombing
L). Civil Disobedience
1. A group of African American high-school students who challenged racial segregation in the
public schools who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September
1957.
2. a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks
to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.
3. Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the
state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as
guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
4. On March 7, 1965 around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to
begin the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful
demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights.
5. On February 1, 1960, four college students took a stand against segregation in Greensboro,
North Carolina when they refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter without being served.
6. Massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in
front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. where Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his “I
Have a Dream” speech.
7. A 14-year-old African American who was brutally lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being
accused of offending a white woman.
8. Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 to
challenge segregation.
9. An act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American Church in
Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963 that killed four girls and injured 22 other people.
10. Court case that established separate but equal law, doctrine/law.
11. Breaking the law to prove/show that the law is unjust. (usually peaceful protest)
12. In 1954 this landmark court case that overturned separate but equal law, doctrine. Noting the
segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.