Space Exploration
Thurgood Marshall
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
March on Washington
Television
Robert Kennedy
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights Act
Rosa Parks
Voting Rights Act
Law that prohibited discrimination based on color, race,or religion in public places, desegregated schools and withheld funding from schools that did not desegregate, and make it illegal to discriminate against people of all races and genders when applying for a job.
Race against Soviet Union to explore space, US put first man on the moon in 1969.
Law that banned all literacy tests and poll taxes that kept many African Americans from voting.
Younger brother of JFK, senator running for president, supported civil rights, assassinated in 1968.
The protest where African Americans refused to ride the bus in Montgomery, Alabama until segregation of public tranportation was outlawed: Martin Luther King, Jr. became a leader for civil rights during this time.
Linda Brown had to travel a mile to the black school when The Supreme Court ruled it was illegal for schools to be segregated.
Most homes had at least one by 1960s, brought world news and events into American homes.
He was the Brown's lawyer in the Brown vs. Board of Education case; the first African American supreme court justice.
An African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a us to a white man; her action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
36th President, signed into law the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
Latin American civil rights activist who cofounded United Farm Workers union, led a nationwide boycott of grapes as a way of improving the rights and conditions of migrant workers.
A peaceful demonstration against segregation, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream Speech.:
A civil rights leader who fought for equal rights for African Americans. He encouraged peaceful protesting. He was assassinated in 1968.
35th president, supporter of civil rights, assassinated in 1963.
