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Civil Rights Vocabulary
Directions: Using your notes from Civil Rights and the textbook, complete the following by providing the
correct answer on the line.
1. Granted African American males the right to suffrage
2. Civil Rights leader whose actions on a bus and subsequent arrest sparked the year long Montgomery Bus
Boycott
3. Group of civil rights activists whose beliefs in black power urged the use of radical methods of achievement
4. Main civil rights leader who urged peaceful methods of attaining equality through the use of civil
disobedience
5. Event culminated by the eventual desegregation of the public bus transportation system in Montgomery,
Alabama
6. President who worked with Congress to help civil rights before his life was tragically cut short
7. This legislation banned literacy tests and other laws that prevented African Americans from voting
8. This amendment outlawed poll taxes
9. Civil Rights leader who converted to Islam and preached radical methods of change before he was
assassinated
10. Group of both blacks and whites who rode the southern bus system to ensure that it was completely
desegregated
11. The Greensboro Four entered a Woolworth’s and refused to leave until they were served. This action is
called a
12. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation is lawful as long as the facilities were equal
13. This Supreme Court case overturned the “separate but equal” verdict on the basis that it was
unconstitutional
14. Passed in southern states after the Civil War, these laws segregated facilities in the South
15. Advocated by leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr and Rosa Parks, this method employs peaceful means
to achieve equal rights
16. This Civil Rights activist group used the federal court system to achieve victory
17. The first case of federally mandated school desegregation occurred in
18. His entrance into major league baseball broke the color barrier
19. After his rejection into prestigious universities because he was black, this future Supreme Court Justice
would led the way in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education
20. It was on this march that Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech