People
Terms
Laws and Amendments
Protests
Court Cases, more people and events
100

He became the first African American to play in Major League baseball. Extra credit...What team did he play for?

Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn (not Los Angeles) Dodgers

100

This form of segregation is imposed by law.

De jure segregation

100

This Amendment abolished the practice of the Poll Tax. 

24th Amendment

100

As a result of the Montommery Bus boycott ____ would emerge as a new leader in the movement and the _____ was founded to continue the fight against segregation. 

Martin Luther King Jr, and the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

100

This Court case ruled "seperate but equal."

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

200

He was the lead attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education landmark case. He would later beome Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

Thurgood Marshall

200

This form is segregation is imposed by customs and unwritten rules of society. 

De facto segregation

200

The __ allowed the Federal government to abolish the practice of literacy tests and gave more power to the government to oversee elections.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

200

____ was a organization of both white and black students that would organize numerous peaceful protests across the nation.

SNCC or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

200

This Court case ruled "seperate but not equal."

Brown v. Board of Education

300

These southern college students refused to give up their seat at a lunch counter. Their protest gained national attention and sparked similar protests across the nation.

The Greensboro Four

300

The ___ was a document signed by more than 100 congressman in protest of the Supreme Court's decision in the Brown v. Board of Education landmark case.

Southern Manifesto.

300

This Amendment allowed people 18-years of age to vote in elections.

26th Amendment

300

The purpose of the Selma, Alabama March was ____ EXTRA CREDIT...such violence was inflicted on the protestors that this event would be called ______.

to bring awareness to black voter registration in Alabama and it was called "Blood Sunday"

300

This Court case ruled that segregation was illegal on US Interstate Buses.

Boynton v. Virginia

400

These students were the first high school students to attend public school in the state of Arkansas. President Eisenhower had to send in the US National Guard to ensure their safety.

The Little Rock Nine

400

The __ was a political party formed in order to fight against civil rights decisons and laws.

The Dixiecrats

400

Where did Rosa Parks break a law for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public city bus?

Montgommery, Alabama

400

In 1961 the ____ tested the federal government’s willingness to enforce that segregation on interstate buses was illegal. These individual were met with horrible violence in _____, ____.

Freedom Riders and Anniston, Alabama

400

He was the Arksansas Governor that refused to integrate the public school system. (bad guy)

Governor Orval Faubus

500

He was a 14-yead old boy that was killed in Mississippi while visiting from Chicago. His death and open casket funeral would give more strength to the Civil Rights Movement. 

Emmett Till

500

The refusal to comply to an unjust law by peaceful protests...EXTRA CREDIT Who first used this technique?

Civil Disobedience and Gandhi during India's independence movement.

500

In 1948 US President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order ___ which would desegregate the US Armed Forces and military.

Executive Order 9981

500

In 1963 more than 1,000 students marched to City Hall to protests segregation. They were met with fire hoses and attacked by police dogs. This gains national attention and begins to shift people’s attitudes towards segregation 

The Alabama Children's Crusade

500

This was the first case that would test the constitutionality of segregation in the US. It occurred in South Carolina.

Briggs v. Elliott

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