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The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944. The goal was to provide immediate rewards for practically all World War II veterans. This Act was also called this.
What is the G.I. Bill of Rights?
100
He was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American Civil Rights Movement. (Shot in 1968)
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
An African American woman arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person. She sparked the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
He was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. An extremist who believed in doing “whatever it takes” to end discrimination in the United States.
Who is Malcolm X?
100
Sending home members of the military. A return to peacetime. The U.S. had over 12 million men and women in the armed forces post WW II. The American public demanded a rapid return home.
What is Demobilization?
200
Dramatic increase in births between 1945 and 1964. Possibly the most influential generation in U.S. History.
What is the Baby Boomers?
200
President Eisenhower encouraged the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway. (Evacuation routes)
What is the Interstate Highway System?
200
Originally this organization for self-defense was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in 1966. They later organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities.
What is the Black Panthers?
200
An outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.Typically in between Urban/City and Rural/Country.
What is the Suburbs?
200
The Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education Decision?
300
It was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating. It lasted over a year.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
It was a landmark event for the early civil rights movement and is partly credited with winning the passage of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. “I have a Dream” speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the March on Washington?
300
A form of protest in which participants sit and refuse to move. Other similar forms of non-violent protest include read-ins, and wade-ins.
What are Sit-ins?
300
A movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. It encouraged black nationalism.
What is Black Power?
300
The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. DeFacto / DeJure
What is Segregation?
400
A statutory or constitutional device enacted by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
400
It is an intentional action with the goal of bringing about social change. An activist is fighting for positive change in society. Forms include - rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, and hunger strikes.
What is Social activism?
400
It was established in 1909 and is America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
What is the NAACP?
400
He argued thirty-two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, more than anyone else in history. He later became the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
400
The intermixing of people or groups previously segregated. Many believe it is the best hope for both black and white Americans.
What is Integration?
500
It was a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. (1965)
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring. It was intended to level the playing field.
What is Affirmative action?
500
The transport of a child of one race, to a school where another race is predominant, in an attempt to promote racial integration.
What is Busing?
500
They were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. They were confronted by arresting police officers, as well as horrific violence from white protesters.
What is the Freedom Riders?
500
He developed the Black Power movement. He became an activist while attending Howard University. He later served as the leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. Kwame Ture
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
600
It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. (1964)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
600
This was the only national civil rights organization led by young people. Activists became full-time organizers, working with community leaders to build local grassroots organizations in the Deep South.
What is the SNCC?
600
Its goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity. Founded in Detroit Michigan.
What is the Nation of Islam?
600
The Supreme Court decision that upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. Specific racial quotas were impermissible.
What is the California v. Bakke decision?
600
This African American organization was closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr. and played a large role in the American civil rights movement.
What is the SCLC?