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

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

President Eisenhower sent U.S. troops to make sure that these students were allowed to attend the previously all white Central High School.

A form of peaceful protest in which people occupied seats in segregated facilities such as lunch counters.

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

250,000 protesters showed up to listen to MLK's I Have a Dream speech and pressure Congress to pass a Civil Rights laws.

This outlawed racial discrimination and segregation in schools, workplaces, and public places

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.

Martin Luther King liked this kind of protest because he felt it would help convince the public of the rightness of the civil rights cause.

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?

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

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

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

During which event did Martin Luther King, Jr. become a leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

Which event helped convince Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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