The civil rights movement's success was the result of both formal actions by various
branches of the federal government (political and legal action) and the actions of
various groups in society putting pressure on government officials to strengthen civil
rights protections for African Americans (social movement action).
Identify the political and legal actions and social movement actions below.
-Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed to organize protests, sit ins, freedom rides
-Voting Rights Act of 1965
-Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
-President Eisenhower sending 101st
Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the integration of Central High School
-Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotts (1955)
Match each to either Political and legal action or social movement action
