Matching Pairs Civil Rights Movement Online version Civil Rights Movement - USH review by Ariana Sanders 1 Young students who rode a bus through communities in the South to participate in activities that they believed would help end segregation 2 City in Arkansas where 9 students were asked to integrate Central High School 3 A law written in U.S. Congress and supported by Pres. Kennedy and later signed by Lyndon Johnson that gave greater protection of rights for African Americans 4 The coming together of 250,000 African Americans (and a small number of whites) who met peacefully in the U.S. capital to plea for civil rights 5 Protesters sit down in a place and refuse to leave 6 A law that said you must pay a fee in order to register to vote or to vote. Made illegal by the 24th Amendment. 7 Tests given to people who were registering to vote. These tests were often unfair to African Americans, because they did not really check to see if you could read or not. Whites did not have to take them. 8 The speech given by a famous civil rights leader on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial exactly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation 9 a struggle in the 1950s and 1960s to gain equality and fair treatment for African- Americans 10 Law that made the literacy test illegal and required the national government to make sure blacks could register and vote freely. Increased the political power of African Americans. 11 a state law that discriminates against African Americans. Ex: separate buses 12 Religious group/organization of Malcolm X Little Rock Civil Rights Movement Literacy Tests Civil Rights Act of 1964 Poll Tax Sit-Ins March on Washington Freedom Riders Nation of Islam Voting Rights Act of 1965 I have a Dream Jim Crow
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