Civil Rights Activist
The Texas President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
the separation of people based on race, religion, or ethnicity
What is segregation?
Supreme Court ruled in favor of the NAACP and required schools across the United States to integrate, but Texas was slow to comply with the ruling
Brown v. Board of Education
The United States and the Soviet Union were in an ___________ after the atomic bomb was dropped in World War II
Originally formed to help Mexican American veterans get the healthcare and benefits they were promised after World War II.
What is American GI Forum?
Texan and civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and encouraged nonviolent protests like sit-ins and Freedom Rides in the fight for equality
Who is James L. Farmer, Jr.?
Treating a person or a group of people unfairly or differently because of who they are, what they look like, or what they believe
What is discrimination?
a Black student, was denied admission to the University of Texas Law School because of his race. Texas tried to build a "separate" law school just for him to satisfy the law.
Sweatt v. Painter
After the Soviets launched the satellite ____________, the United States increased spending on technology
What is Sputnik?
This group fights for women’s equality and has chapters throughout the United States.
What is National Women Organization (NOW)?
Civil rights activist and Houston NAACP President
Who is Lulu Belle Madison White?
Women fought for this.
What is Suffrage? or What is Equality?
Ended segregation in schools across Texas
Hernandez v. Driscoll CISD
In 1961, President ___________ stood before a large crowd at Rice University near Houston and promised to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade
Who is President Kennedy?
Which group was formed in Corpus Christi to fight for the rights of Hispanic Texans?
What is League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)?
Established the American GI Forum to help Mexican American veterans gain access to services that whites had; his efforts helped earn him the American Medal of Freedom
Who is Hector P. Garcia?
What is the process of ending systematic racial segregation?
What is Integration?
The Texas Democratic Party only allowed white voters to participate in primary elections. Since the Democrats dominated Texas at the time, the primary was essentially the "real" election.
Smith v. Allwright
Which ASTRONAUT was a flight crew member of Apollo 7, NASA's first Apollo mission to carry a crew into space?
This group is famous for its "Direct Action" tactics—meaning they didn't just sue in court; they put "boots on the ground.
What is Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
an African American civil rights activist and postman who challenged Texas segregation laws by applying to the University of Texas Law School in 1946
Who is Heman Sweatt?
These were state and local laws enacted between the late 1800s and the mid-1960s that enforced racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that Mexican Americans (and all other racial groups) had equal protection under the 14th Amendment, meaning they could not be excluded from serving on juries.
Hernandez v. Texas
What does NASA stand for?
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
This group's goal was to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights for all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?