Civil Rights Leaders
Who in 1953, gave the famous " I have a dream " speech ?
Martin Luther King
The sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities ?
Dinners/ resturants
This violent group opposed civil rights and tried to harm anyone they saw as "different." They had a secret society that began in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism.
KKK
To stop buying or using
boycott/buycott
What women rufused to giver up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott ?
Rosa Parks
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and should blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted unon them.
Malcolm X
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
Civil Rights of 1964
This social and political group was part of the larger Black Power movement, which emphasized Black pride, community investment, and unifying together for civil rights ?
Black Panthers
Laws that discriminated against African Americans in public spaces and facilities such as restaurants, theaters, hotels, cinemas and public baths. Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people.
Jim Crow laws
What was Emmett Tills mothers name ?
Mamie Till
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust blacks should be morally obligated to not follow it but accept the consequences. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.
Martin Luther King
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?
escape segergation & finds better jobs .
Leaders of student protests formed this group to train protesters and organize civil rights demonstrations.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The Organized passive protests where people sit peacefullly and refuse to leave
sit-ins
What terrorist group hoped to den African-Americans equal rights as citizens ?
KKK
What Civil rights leader thought that segregation should end now! Blacks should not have to wait for or try to earn their equality from whites. Blacks should also have the option to have whatever type of education they wanted whether it be practical or academic.
W.E.B Du Bois
The Great Depression was hardest on blacks because ?
blacks were the first to lose their jobs, and did not have financial savings to help them through the Great Depression
A civil rights organization founded in 1909 who used political and legal action to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of people of color.
National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP)
a small group of african americans students selected to intergate CEntral High School in Arkansaa
the Little Rock Nine
What religious group did Malcolm X belong to ?
the Nation of islam/muslim
What civil rights leader wanted blacks to work hard and earn their equality from whites. He did not believe in pushing for the ending of segregation or equal rights now. He thought blacks should focus on working hard, saving money & getting a practical education so they would be superior laborers.
Booker T Washington
What was it called when two planes crashed into the twin towers ?
9/11
9-1-1
What does C.O.R.E stand for ?
Congress of Racial Equality
This was a massive civil rights demonstration that was held on August 28, 1963. People marched and gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial and MLK delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech.
March on Washington
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and that blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them ?
Malcolm X