1. Civil Rights Picture Quiz 1929 - 2000

2. t V
Civil Rights Movement - campaign for equal rights for African-Americans

3. Jim Crow Laws – Name given to the laws which persecuted black people in the US

4. Great Migration – when many black people moved from the South to the North of the US in search of a better life.

5. Peaceful Protest

6. Fair Deal - Truman’s policy which was a continuation of the New Deal
Fair Deal - Truman’s policy which was a continuation of the New Deal. Looked to improve the lives of black American’s but was unsuccessful.

7. Y
Jim Crow Army – Name given to black Americans that joined the US army to fight in WW2.

8. Depression – after the crash in 1929 the 30s in America saw a period of economic Depression

9. WASP – White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

10. Martin Luther King – influential leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

11. William Du Bois – president of the NAACP

12. Segregation – blacks and whites were kept apart from whites in the south.

13. New Deal – Roosevelt’s policy to help the economy based on the 3Rs Relief, Recovery & Reform

14. Ku Klux Klan – racist group that persecuted blacks, Catholics, Jews and other groups.
Other crimes include a host white pillow case thefts.

15. Rosa Parks – figure of civil rights protest.

16. Barack Obama

17. Freedom Rides – where black people deliberately sat in ‘white only’ seats onboard buses to protest against the southern segregation.