Post-War Prosperity
Civil Rights Law
Civil Rights Groups
Civil Rights Protests
People
100
This new law, signed by FDR, allowed veterans to receive special benefits like cheaper home loans, free college/vocational education and unemployment benefits
GI Bill
100
What were state laws meant to segregate whites and blacks known as?
Jim Crow Laws
100
Leader that preached non-violence and valued working with whites to overcome racism in America
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)
100
True or False: the federal government sent troops to use military force to enforce integration in schools and public spaces.
True
100
Who is this?
Bonus: Where is he?
Double Bonus: What speech was he giving?
MLK, March on Washington, I Have a Dream
200
True or False: Levittowns (the original suburbs) allowed families of all racial backgrounds
False
Bonus: Which Civil Rights law overturned this?
200
Which Supreme Court case legally ended segregation in public schools?
Bonus: Which earlier Supreme Court ruling did this case overturn?
Brown v Board of Education
Plessy v Ferguson
200
CORE was a civil rights group who famously organized the freedom rides during the Freedom Summer. What does CORE stand for?
Congress of Racial Equality
200
Bonus: What did Executive Order 9981 do?
Desegregated the military
200
Who is this? What were is main beliefs?
Bonus: which black nationalist group was he allied with for most of his career?
Malcolm X; black nationalism, equality by any means necessary (violence)
Nation of Islam
300
What did the Taft-Harley Act do?
restricted the power of labor unions
300
Which Civil Rights law ended segregation in all public spaces in the US?
Bonus: Which president passed this law?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
LBJ
300
Name two Civil Rights groups that used violence as a means of protest.
SNCC (after 1967), Black Panthers, Nation of Islam
300
What was the main purpose of the March on Washington (what were they demanding)?
Passage of JFK's Civil Rights Bill
300
Who is this?
JFK
400
What were two major impact the Federal Highway Act had on Americans?
Ability to live in suburbs and drive to city and increased trade between states
400
What did the Supreme Court decide in Regents of the US v. Bakke?
Ruled a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but held that affirmative action programs in general are constitutional
400
militant movement that promoted Black nationalism famous for popularizing the "afro" hair style
Black Power Movement
400
Group that believed in the arming of Black citizens and that created free-lunch programs in Oakland, CA
Black Panthers
400
Who is this?
Emmett Till
500
Provide an example of how America "demobilized" after WWII?
transition from wartime goods to consumer goods
tanks--cars. aircraft carries--cruise ships. military uniforms--mens dress suits etc.
500
Which amendment to the constitution outlawed poll taxes or charging African Americans a fee to vote?
24th Amendment
500
Why did SNCC change their name when Stokely Carmichael took over in 1967?
He believed in violence
500
Which famous case did Rosa Parks think of when she refused to move her seat on the bus?
Emmett Till
500
Who is this?
LBJ