Civil Rights Leaders
She sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person
Rosa Parks
The Supreme Court cased ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
This organization was founded in 1909 to improve the rights of African Americans and worked in the 1950's to change segregation in public education.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Youngest president ever elected
JFK
What was the name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech he gave at the March on Washington in 1963?
"I Have A Dream"
Martin Luther King Jr. supported the refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust. This is known as...
civil disobedience
A group of African Americans and white civil rights activists that left Washington D.C. in busses into the deep South to find out if the Southern states were enforcing the ruling that bus stations could not be segregated. They were arrested and often faced violence but continued.
Freedom Riders
Who did Kennedy defeat in the 1960 election... the election that had the first ever televised debate?
Richard Nixon
This law was passed in 1963 to prevent employers from paying women less than men
He was the lawyer for the NAACP who successfully argued against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
This is where a peaceful protest took place for the ongoing fight for African American voting rights in 1965. Police attacked and beat protestors. This was televised and became national news. As a result Congress and LBJ passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Civil rights workers who helped African Americans register to vote in the South in summer of 1964. They were often faced with violent opposition and 3 were killed.
Freedom Summer Workers
Who assassinated Kennedy and where was he assassinated (city and state) ?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dallas, Texas
He led a boycott on grapes to fight for better wages and working conditions for Latino migrant farmworkers
Cesar Chavez
Medgar Evers
Name two historically important places that AIM (The American Indian Movement) occupied to protest for their rights
Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, Bureau of Indian Affairs in D.C
Created in Oakland California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and represented frustration among African Americans living in cities due to poverty and lack of jobs.
Black Panthers
Name two significant civil rights laws passed by Johnson.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
Medicare provides health care for the elderly, Medicaid provides health care for low income families
Name the group of students who were the first to integrate Central High School in Arkansas AND name the first African American student to go to Mississippi University.
The Little Rock 9
James Meredith
Give three important leaders that were assassinated in the 1960's that were all connected to the civil rights movement.
MLK, Malcolm X., JFK
Martin Luther King Jr. helped form the SCLC with 60 other ministers to help prepare African Americans for the struggle of equal rights. What does each letter in SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Give the name of Johnson's set of programs that was aimed to help people living below the poverty line
The Great Society
What was the name of the feminist organization who fought for equal rights for women in all aspects of life-jobs, education, marriage, etc. ?
NOW (National Organization for Women)