Southern laws reconstruction
A southern law requiring African Americans to pay a fee in order to vote
What were Poll Taxes?
Legal separation of people according to their race.
What is segregation?
How did states get around the 15th amendment and restrict people from voting? Give one example.
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
Which MLK speech became the slogan for the Civil Rights Movement after the March on Washington in 1963?
This President in 1948 signed an executive order that de-segregated the US Military in a big step towards the Civil Rights movement.
Harry S. Truman
This Civil Rights activist is best known for being the first African American admitted into Ole Miss.
James Meredith
Who was the prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement who gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the significance of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case in 1954?
It declared that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional, leading to the desegregation of schools. It also became the foundation for future cases against segregation.
Who was a leader in the Chicano Movement, known for his advocacy for farm workers' rights?
Cesar Chavez
Laws that created separate facilities based on race.
What were Jim Crow laws?
A terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation and violence in an attempt to prevent African Americans from accessing their Constitutional rights.
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
How did U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond oppose the expansion of civil rights?
Issued the first draft of the Southern Manifesto & conducted a 24 hour filibuster.
Mass movement of African Americans from the agricultural south to the industrial north looking for jobs
What was the Great Migration?
This Landmark Supreme Court decision reversed "Plessy" Case in 1954 and started the desegregation process.
*500 extra bonus points if you can also name the Landmark 1967 case that made it illegal for states to pass laws banning interracial marriages.
Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Loving V Virginia
This Civil Rights activist was assassinated in his driveway in Jackson, MS in 1963.
*500 bonus points if you can name the assassin and the results of his 1994 trial.
Medger Evers
Byron De La Beckwith--guilty with life in prison, he served 7 years before his death in 2001 at the age of 80.
Which Civil Rights Movement leader co-founded the (SCLC) and what does it stand for?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
How did the Civil Rights Movement impact the Women's Rights Movement in the United States?
The Civil Rights Movement inspired and influenced the Women's Rights Movement, leading to increased awareness and activism for gender equality.
Who wrote the influential book "The Feminine Mystique," often credited with sparking the second wave of feminism?
Betty Friedan
Initially Southern states adopted these codes as a means of restricting the FREEDMEN from exercising their full citizenship rights.
What were the Black Codes?
This Amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What was the 13th?
What was MLK's view on the Vietnam war according to his "Beyond Vietnam," 1967 speech?
African Americans were fighting for the freedom of others while facing discrimination at home.
This arts movement showcased African American talent and culture in the 1920s
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Early Pieces of Legislation under President Eisenhower following Brown v Board even though it was not very strong it was a start.
This US President sent the military to Ole Miss to ensure the admittance of James Meredith after MS governor Ross Barnett tried to block him.
JFK
This Civil Rights Movement activist became the first Black justice on the US Supreme Court in 1967.
Thurgood Marshall
How did the Civil Rights Movement influence later movements for equality and social justice in the United States?
The Civil Rights Movement set a precedent for future movements by demonstrating the power of nonviolent resistance and activism, paving the way for progress in various social justice causes.
What event sparked the Chicano Movement in the 1960s?
The Delano Grape Strike.
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
In the mid-20th century, both the Chicano Movement and the Feminist Movement had this common grievance.
Unfair wages and pay.
This type of music began in African American communities around New Orleans and combined the Blues with popular Ragtime music.
Jazz
These TWO pieces of legislation (only one year apart) were both signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson--one prohibited discrimination based on race the other guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race and ended literacy taxes.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
One of the most controversial Civil Rights leaders and founder of the "Black Power Movement"
Stokely Carmichael
Who was the fierce Civil Rights Movement leader known for his advocacy of Black power and separatism?
Malcolm X
What event happened on March 7, 1965, when peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
Bloody Sunday
Name a significant event or protest organized by the American Indian Movement.
Occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973
The policy that made it so black people could not vote if their older family members could not vote.
What was the grandfather clause?
This amendment granted all persons born in the U.S. or naturalized in the U.S. full citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
How did Bull Connor's actions contribute to the advancement of the civil rights movement?
His tactics against civil rights protesters were so violent that it moved much of the nation in support of the civil rights cause.
This event in 1921 Tulsa was one of the deadliest days for African Americans in US history
What was the Black Wallstreet Massacre?
In 1963 this would become one of the largest demonstrations in our nations history with over 250,000 people in attendance. It ended with one of the most famous speeches in history as well. Name the demonstration, speech and speaker.
March on Washington (DC)
I Have A Dream
Martin Luther King Jr.
A young man from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi-his death became a rallying call for the Civil Rights movement after his mother released photographs of his body after his death.
Emmitt Till
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama and sparked what major event?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Name the event where Dr. King and thousands of others marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights for Black citizens in 1965.
Selma to Montgomery March (or Selma Voting Rights March)
What were some of the key objectives of the American Indian Movement?
Treaty enforcement, sovereignty, and addressing systemic racism against Native Americans