The Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 1

Thurgood Marshall went on to Supreme Court Justice lead the courtroom battles in the Brown V. Board of education case.

Question 2

Brown V. Board of education

Answer 2

In the early 1950s, five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together under the title of Brown V. Board of Education.

Question 3

Little Rock nine

Answer 3

It allowed nine outstanding black student to attend central high school. The student became known as the Little Rock nine.

Question 4

Rosa parks

Answer 4

Rosa parks was a women who got on a bus and didn’t want to give up her seat to a white person and got arrested for it.

Question 5

Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 5

In the Montgomery bus boycott, thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses.

Question 6

Martin luther King JR.

Answer 6

King was a powerful speaker who lead the Montgomery bus boycott.

Question 7

Sit-in

Answer 7

Sit-in- a demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave.

Question 8

Student nonviolent coordinating committee

Answer 8

To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of student protests formed the student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC) in the spring of 1960.