1. Civil Rights Movement EOC

2. Civil Rights leader who supported nonviolence, civil disobedience, boycotts, and marches and opposed segregation

3. Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Civil rights leader who favored a more aggressive approach to achieving civil rights

5. Malcolm X

6. Founder of the NAACP; believed African Americans should go to college

7. W.E.B. Dubois

8. Believed African Americans should achieve gradual equality with job training and learning a skill or trade

9. Booker T. Washington

10. Helped end racial segregation in Major League Baseball

11. Jackie Robinson

12. Gave rights as citizens and equal protection under the law

13. 14th Amendment

14. Gave African Americans the right to vote

15. 15th Amendment

16. Enforced racial segregation and kept African Americans from voting and achieving racial equality

17. Jim Crow Laws

18. Prohibited the poll tax

19. 24th Amendment

20. Eliminated the literacy test

21. Voting Rights Act 1965

22. Outlawed discrimination and segregation in public places and prohibited discrimination in hiring

23. Civil Rights Act 1964

24. Gave women the right to vote

25. 19th Amendment

26. Ruled that segregation of blacks and whites was legal

27. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

28. Ruled segregation of children in public schools was harmful and unconstitutional

29. Brown v. Board of Education 1954

30. Attorney for NAACP who won Brown v Board case and later became first African American Supreme Court Justice

31. Thurgood Marshall

32. Enforced the decision in Brown v Board by sending troops to allow desegregation of public high school

33. President Eisenhower Central High School Little Rock

34. Supreme Court ruled University of Texas Law School must enroll African Americans

35. Sweatt v. Painter 1950

36. Mexican Americans have a right to a jury of their peers

37. Hernandez v. Texas 1954

38. Segregation of children in Texas public schools is unconstitutional

39. Delgado v. Bastrop ISD 1948

40. Arrest for refusal to sit in back of bus led to Montgomery Bus Boycott

41. Rosa Parks

42. Sold his restaurant rather than serve African Americans

43. Lester Maddox

44. Interracial groups rode buses in South to protest racial segregation in public places

45. Freedom Rides

46. Governor of Alabama who stood in doorway at University of Alabama to prevent African American students from enrolling

47. George Wallace

48. Programs designed to increase minority representation in colleges, businesses, and professions

49. Affirmative Action

50. Supreme Court ruled that race cannot be the only factor for admission

51. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

52. Voting districts must be equally proportioned and represented

53. Reynolds v. Sims