Civil Rights I
The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v Ferguson gave rise to this 3-word phrase saying that different accomodations were ok as long as they were the same.
"Separate but Equal"
Martin Luther King Jr supported this type of movement because he believed it would convince the public of the righteousness of the movement's goals.
Nonviolent Movement
In 1963, around 250,000 people marched on Washington demanding what?
The passage of civil rights laws
JFK's 1960 campaign claim that the United States was not keeping up with the Soviety Union in terms of military technology
"Missile Gap"
"Bull" Connor and the Children's March happened here
Birmingham, Alabama
The name for an individual state's "army" or militia, controlled by the state's governor
National Guard
This was a common tactic used to desegregate lunch counters.
Sit-ins.
This president persuaded Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Johnson
JFK's international failure in 1961 took place at this Cuban location
Bay of Pigs
9 black students enrolled in Central High School in 1957 here
Little Rock, Arkansas
Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat to a white man on a segregated bus started what?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
President Eisenhower did this when trying to protect the first black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
Sent in Federal Troops
Literacy tests were outlawed as a result of this law.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The program created by President Johnson to provide medical care to the elderly
Medicare
A 54 mile march to the state capital Montgomery started (3 times) here
Selma, Alabama
This 1954 court case declared that school segregation was illegal by unanimous vote
Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Organization made up of southern ministers and their congregations that embraced non-violence as a means to achieve desegregation
SCLC / Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This movement embraced the use of violence to reach equality for African Americans.
Black Power Movement.
The name of Johnson's overall domestic policy plan
Great Society
A destructive riot happened here in 1967 following the police raid of an illegal bar
Detroit, Michigan
During the Montgomery bus boycott, this famous individual emerged as an important leader of the Civil Rights movement.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This group of people were recruited to protest in Birmingham when fewer people became less willing to participate.
Children
Neighborhood in Los Angeles where destructive riots happened in 1965
Watts
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and astronaut John Glenn were the first two men to orbit the earth, part of THIS ongoing (and rhyming) competition between the US and Soviet Union
Space Race
Dallas, Texas