( Blank) during an interview in New York’s Central Park in August 1970
Who’s Alice Walker ?
page: 717
James Peck, a white civil rights activist, joined other Core members on a historic but trip across the South.
What happened in 1961?
Page:710
Suez Canal crisis occurs in Egypt.
What happened in 1956?
Pg 698
...........asserted in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal"
Tomas Jefferson
Pg 724
In 1938, he placed a team of his best law students under the direction of ____. Over the next 23 years, Marshall and his NAACP lawyers would win 29 out of 32 cases argued before the Supreme court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Pg.702
....one such leader, (Blank) declares to Harlem audience, “ If you think we are here to tell you to love the white man, you have come to the wrong places.”
Who is Malcolm X?
page: 719
The bus companies refused to carry the CORE freedom riders any farther.
What is the New Volunteers?
Page: 711
Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
What happened in 1961?
Pg 726
A.........celebrates the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1899.
Crowd of black and white Americans.
Pg 724
Which was Marshall’s most stunning victory came on May 17,1954?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Pg.702
(blank) The slogan “Black Power” became the battle-cry of militant civil rights activist.
Who is Stokely Carmichael ?
Page: 720
Although Alabama officials had promised Kennedy that the riders would be protected,a mob of whites many carrying bats and lead pipes fell upon the riders when they arrived in Montgomery.
What is the arrival of federal marshals?
Page:711
South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela is imprisoned
What happened in 1962?
Pg 699
The civil rights movement has also.......for other groups gaining...... , include other minorities, women, and people with disabilities.
been the basis, equal rights
Pg 725
On December 1,1955, a seamstress and an NAACP officer, took a seat in the front row of the “colored”section of Montgomery bus.
What is Rosa Parks?
Pg.704
(Blank) which ended the discrimination in housing.
What is the Civil rights act of 1968 ?
Page:722
Air Force veteran James Meredith won a federal court case that allowed him to erroll in the all white University of Mississippi, nicknamed Ole Miss.
What happened in September 1962?
Page:711
Malcolm X was assassinated.
what happen in 1965?
Pg 726
During the 1950s and 1960s, ...... and other ...... led a powerful movement to Fight for racial equality.
African Americans, Americans
Pg 725
The leaders of the African-American community, including many ministers, formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the boycott, They elected the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 26-year-old guy lead the group. Who is this 26-year-old guy?
Who is Martin Luther King,Jr? Pg.704
African-American women such as (Blank) exemplified the advances won in the civil rights movement.
Who is Shirley Chisholm ?
Page: 722
The president sent troops to force Governor George Wallace to honor a court order desegregating the University of Alabama.
What happened on June 11, 1963?
Page:714
Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president.
What happen in 1964?
Pg 699
In 1982, he and his wifw, ...... founded the Carter Center.
Rosalynn
Pg 725
In April 1960, Baker helped students at Shaw University, an African-American university in Raleigh, North Carolina, to organize a national protest group, what committee pronounced”snick” for short?
What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)? Pg.706