Relacionar Columnas Civil Rights MovementVersión en línea Match key events and people to the definition. por Sandra Nance 1 Thurgood Marshall 2 Television 3 Montgomery Bus Boycott 4 Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 5 Robert Kennedy 6 Martin Luther King Jr. 7 Voting Rights Act 8 Rosa Parks 9 Space Exploration 10 March on Washington 11 Civil Rights Act 12 John F. Kennedy 13 Lyndon B. Johnson 14 Cesar Chavez 35th president, supporter of civil rights, assassinated in 1963. 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. Race against Soviet Union to explore space, US put first man on the moon in 1969. 36th President, signed into law the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. 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. 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. Law that banned all literacy tests and poll taxes that kept many African Americans from voting. Most homes had at least one by 1960s, brought world news and events into American homes. Linda Brown had to travel a mile to the black school when The Supreme Court ruled it was illegal for schools to be segregated. 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. 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. Younger brother of JFK, senator running for president, supported civil rights, assassinated in 1968. He was the Brown's lawyer in the Brown vs. Board of Education case; the first African American supreme court justice.
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