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