Relier Pairs Civil Rights MovementVersion en ligne Match key events and people to the definition. par Sandra Nance 1 Lyndon B. Johnson 2 Robert Kennedy 3 Voting Rights Act 4 Thurgood Marshall 5 Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 6 Rosa Parks 7 Martin Luther King Jr. 8 Civil Rights Act 9 Television 10 March on Washington 11 John F. Kennedy 12 Cesar Chavez 13 Space Exploration 14 Montgomery Bus Boycott He was the Brown's lawyer in the Brown vs. Board of Education case; the first African American supreme court justice. Linda Brown had to travel a mile to the black school when The Supreme Court ruled it was illegal for schools to be segregated. Younger brother of JFK, senator running for president, supported civil rights, assassinated in 1968. A peaceful demonstration against segregation, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream Speech.: 35th president, supporter of civil rights, assassinated in 1963. An African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a us to a white man; her action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Law that prohibited discrimination based on color, race,or religion in public places, desegregated schools and withheld funding from schools that did not desegregate, and make it illegal to discriminate against people of all races and genders when applying for a job. 36th President, signed into law the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Race against Soviet Union to explore space, US put first man on the moon in 1969. Law that banned all literacy tests and poll taxes that kept many African Americans from voting. Most homes had at least one by 1960s, brought world news and events into American homes. The protest where African Americans refused to ride the bus in Montgomery, Alabama until segregation of public tranportation was outlawed: Martin Luther King, Jr. became a leader for civil rights during this time. Latin American civil rights activist who cofounded United Farm Workers union, led a nationwide boycott of grapes as a way of improving the rights and conditions of migrant workers. A civil rights leader who fought for equal rights for African Americans. He encouraged peaceful protesting. He was assassinated in 1968.