Matching Pairs Civil Rights Movement Online version Civil Rights Movement - USH review by Ariana Sanders 1 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. 2 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. 3 Religious group/organization of Malcolm X 4 a state law that discriminates against African Americans. Ex: separate buses 5 Protesters sit down in a place and refuse to leave 6 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 7 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 8 City in Arkansas where 9 students were asked to integrate Central High School 9 A law that said you must pay a fee in order to register to vote or to vote. Made illegal by the 24th Amendment. 10 The speech given by a famous civil rights leader on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial exactly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation 11 Young students who rode a bus through communities in the South to participate in activities that they believed would help end segregation 12 a struggle in the 1950s and 1960s to gain equality and fair treatment for African- Americans March on Washington Civil Rights Movement Jim Crow Civil Rights Act of 1964 Poll Tax Freedom Riders Nation of Islam Voting Rights Act of 1965 Sit-Ins I have a Dream Literacy Tests Little Rock
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