Civil Rights Movement

Front 1

Southern state laws that separated whites and blacks in public places

Back 1

Jim Crow Laws

Hint 1

These created separate spaces for whites and blacks and institutionalized discrimination and fed racist attitudes

Front 2

Migration of Blacks to the North from the South

Back 2

Great Migration

Hint 2

Migration allowed Blacks to hold factory jobs which led to better economic opportunity and they were not barred from voting in the North

Front 3

Minister and leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Later the movement nationally

Back 3

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hint 3

The movement involved thousands of ordinary people but needed strong leaders to guide activities

Front 4

Non-violent resistance, in the form of boycotts or marches, to unfair or immoral laws

Back 4

civil disobedience

Hint 4

Thousands were moved to act when they believed conditions were unjust. This forced businesses and politicians to rethink their positions leading to a change

Front 5

1896 Supreme Court decision that stated "separate but equal" public facilities were legal

Back 5

Plessy v. Ferguson

Hint 5

This decision led to a sharply segregated society in the South

Front 6

Unanimous 1954 Supreme Court decision that stated "separate facilities are inherently unequal"

Back 6

Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas

Hint 6

This decision begins the process of desegregating public schools which eventually leads to other decisions which desegregate society generally

Front 7

Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Back 7

SCLC civil rights organization that pushed for equal rights for blacks

Hint 7

Organizations like SCLC helped to organize non violent demonstrations

Front 8

Pictures, film, recordings of speeches

Back 8

The Media

Hint 8

The media was instrumental in raising awareness to the plight of blacks during the movement to ordinary middle class Americans who were sometimes horrified at the images they saw on the evening news broadcasts

Front 9

President who first proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill

Back 9

John F. Kennedy

Hint 9

Kennedy finally took a stand on civil rights as violence mounted against blacks and white civil rights activists in the South

Front 10

President who helped push the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 Voting Rights Act through Congress

Back 10

Lyndon B. Johnson

Hint 10

Johnson was a skilled politician with Senate experience and he took a stand in favor of civil rights the moment he became President

Front 11

NAACP secretary, seamstress, wife, and church member in Montgomery, Alabama who refused to stand on city bus

Back 11

Rosa Parks

Hint 11

The Black community rallied around Rosa Parks and committed themselves to a boycott of the city buses that lasted over a year and eventually led to desegregated buses and a greater sense of pride