Early Civil Rights
Laws in the South that were meant to segregate African Americans
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" is constitutional
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Civil rights leader who believed in non-violent protesting and was assassinated in 1968
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
Unjust Laws, Non-Violence, Political Protest
What is Civil Disobedience?
Rode through the south to protest segregation on interstate buses
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Frankie Jonas is the 4th brother of this famous brother boy-band.
Who are the Jonas Brothers?
Educator, reformer and the most influentional black leader of his time (1856-1915) preached a philosophy of self-help, racial solidarity and accomodation
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Supreme Court Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Organization that used non-violence and was dedicated to strengthening local communities
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment
What are the Civil Rights Amendments?
Citizens refused to ride buses in order to protest segregation on city buses
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
It is the title of Stephen King's novel about the creepy clown Pennywise
What is It?
Founding member of the NAACP, he believed in a more activist approach to Civil Rights
Who is W. E. B. Dubois?
Law that banned discrimination in the workplace
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Radical leader who believed in " What means necessary". Was assassinated by the Nation of Islam
Who was Malcolm X?
Govenor Faebus, 101st Airborne, Elizabeth Eckford
Who are the Little Rock Nine
Demonstrators occupy a place open to the public, such as a racially segregated lunch counter or bus station, and then refuse to leave.
What are sit-ins?
The major powers of Europe were involved in this war that lasted the 7 years between 1756 & 1763
What is the 7 Years War?
The historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Legislation that was passed to ensure the 15th amendment was protected
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Organization that used the court system to challenge inequalities for African Americans in the US
What is the NAACP?
Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clause
What are barriers to voting?
Marches that were organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South.
What were the Selma Marches?
This scary movie spoof from 2000 was written by Shawn & Marlon Wayans & directed by brother Keenen
What is Scary Movie?
Set up after the Civil War to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Supreme Court Case that ruled any racial quota for the purpose of admissions supported by a government entity violates the Equal Protection Clause. This became known as Affirmative Action.
What was Bakke vs. California?
Organization created by Huey P. Newton that believed in armed resistance
What is the Black Panthers?
Ghandi, Thoreau, Rustin
What are influences of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Volunteer campaign launched in June of 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi
What is the Freedom Summer?
Henry Adams grandson of John Quincy Adams wrote the nonfiction classic The Education of him
Who is John Quincy Adams?