People
Early CR leader who promoted "accommodation" and "gradual equality" through economics
Booker T. Washington
the reason MLK was in Memphis when he was assassinated
to support striking sanitation workers
1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld Louisiana's Jim Crow laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Location of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Niagara Falls, NY
State laws requiring separation of the races
Jim Crow
Early CR leader who promoted the "Back to Africa" movement and even established a shipping company, the Black Star Line, for the purpose of transporting blacks back to Africa
Marcus Garvey
JFK nationalized the Mississippi militia against governor Ross Barnett in order for who to enroll in the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
Eliminated the literacy test for voter registration
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Where Eisenhower "nationalized" the state milita against the policies of the governor Orval Fabus
Little Rock, AR
The refusal to abide by an unjust law
Civil Disobedience
President that integrated the defense industry by Executive Order
FDR
In order to gain awareness of the plight of migrant farm workers, the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) enacted what?
Nationwide lettuce and grape boycott
Eliminated the poll tax
24th Amendment
Where people said, "I refuse to get on til Jim Crow gets off!"
Montgomery, AL
Political party that started when Truman insisted on inserting a civil rights plank into the Democratic Party platform
States' Rights or Dixiecrat party
President that integrated the military by Executive Order
Harry Truman
AIM siezed control of which site in order to bring attention to a corrupt tribal chief and other issues facing Native Americans
Wounded Knee at the Pine Ridge Reservation
Which law banned gender discrimination in employment?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Location of the first sit-in
Greensboro, NC
Who was assassinated in June of 1968 just after he won the Democratic California Primary for the presidency?
Robert Kennedy
President that presided over the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Acts of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968
Lyndon B. Johnson
Members of NOW (National Organization for Women) often protested at which national event?
Miss America Pageant
What is the term for a policy or program that gives perferences in education and hiring based on minority status in order to address past discrimination
Affirmitive Action
Location for Freedom Summer because it had the very lowest percentage of African-Americans registered to vote
Mississippi
Who was the first African-American woman to win a seat in Congress AND run for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination?
Shirley Chisholm