Civil Rights Vocabulary Practice

Use the correct Civil Rights vocabulary and leaders to complete each sentence. 1. Martin Luther King, Jr. game his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.2. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated before he could change any laws that would help with Civil Rights.3. After the court case called Brown vs. the Board of Education, schools had to practice integration so everyone could go to school together.4. One of the things that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott as the arrest of Rosa Parks after she refused to give up a seat at the front of a bus to a white passenger.5. The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. is celebrated each year as a national holiday.6. A sit-in is a form of protest that is peaceful and nonviolent.7. Many people in the south could not use the same buildings and parks because of laws that allowed segregation of the races.8. People called Freedom Riders risked their lives by traveling around the South on buses to protest the unfair treatment in those areas.9. The first African American to serve on the United States Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall.10. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal to practice segregation in the United States.