Civil Rights Review

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During which event did MLK give his famous I Have a Dream speech?

13 months protest of Rosa Parks' arrest, resulting in an end of segregation on city buses.

Why did many African Americans hesitate to speak out against discrimination?

Which U.S. president sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to make sure 9 African American students could attend previously all white Central High School?

Because adults became unwilling to risk arrest, children were recruited to participate in nonviolent protests in this most-segregated of southern cities.

1954 Supreme Court decision that declared segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.

This made it illegal for state and local governments to pass laws causing racial discrimination in voting rights, such as poll taxes and literacy tests.

What term is used to describe the separation of groups of people based on skin color?