Civil Rights
General
General
What sparked the civil rights movements in the United States in the 1950s-1960s?
Brown v. Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader in the civil rights movement during what decade?
1960s
What year was a letter from a Birmingham jail written? Who was it addressed to?
1963, It was addressed to the Clergy.
This figure led the event of the March on Washington for freedom and jobs.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What were Muslim Women fighting for?
Women’s life and freedom. Mandatory veiling, gender discrimination
What was the name of the 1965 civil rights law, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which prohibited discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests and poll taxes?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
MLK was the key Organizer and participant of what famous event that occurred on August 28, 1963
The March on Washington
MLK Jr. led a Campaign in Birmingham in Alabama in 1963 that aimed to end what type of discriminatory act?
Segregation
An escaped slave who worked along side President Lincoln and a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement against inequality issues.
Fredrick Douglass
What does veiling mean?
To cover something
What landmark civil rights law, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, made it illigal to discriminate in public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
How did Martin Luther King Jr. view civil rights?
Viewed civil rights as an essential and fundamental part of the American democracy, and believed in using no-violent resistance as a way to achieve social change.
What were the Christians called by people of power when convicted? (Referring to the Birmingham Letter)
Outside Agitators
Who was the African American women who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?
Rosa Parks
Where were these protests held at?
What was the name of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. used what metaphor to describe the struggle for civil rights?
The metaphor of a check, saying that America had given black people a “promissory note” for their rights that had come back marked “insufficient funds”
“Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly _____ city in the United States.”
segregated
This significant figure did not want to wait anymore and had stated how he disagreed with MLK’s way of peaceful protests.
Malcom X
How were these events in Iran related to events during the civil rights protests in United States?
Similar to the Sit-ins that were promoted by MLK
What civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the name of the organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1957 to coordinate nonviolent protests and civil rights movements across the United States?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
From the slides, there were many things that happened in Birmingham, name two things that happened in Birmingham
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded by what important figure in October 1966.
Huey P. Newton
This quote is pulled from the slides, fill in the blanks, “Many other women followed suit despite the threat of _____ and _______, removing their headscarves in nonviolent protest” (Washington Post)
arrest and harassment