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Test Prep
100
This organization gave young African Americans a greater voice in the Civil Rights movement.
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
100
She refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Rosa Parks
100
This outlawed discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
100
He signed the two biggest Civil Rights laws of the 1960s
Lyndon B. Johnson
100
This is segregation created by law.
de jure segregation
100
Malcolm X
100
What was the goal of the Selma March?
to get voting rights legislation passed.
200
Rosa Parks was a member of this organization. They helped with the bus boycott and the Brown vs. Board case.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
200
Martin Luther King Jr. was an advocate of non-violence.His teachings came from Jesus and what world leader that sought independence for India?
Gandhi
200
This amendment granted all men the right to vote
15th Amendment
200
Following the violence in Alabama in 1963, he went on tv and pushed for Civil Rights legislation, although he didn't see it get passed.
JFK
200
This is segregation no supported by law but continued in practice.
de facto segregation
200
MLK
200
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in what city?
Memphis
300
This organization was founded by MLK and other ministers.
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
300
He is the first African American Supreme Court justice. Prior to that he was a lawyer in the Brown vs. Board case.
Thurgood Marshall
300
This Supreme Court Case is from 1896 and made segregation legal
Plessy vs. Ferguson
300
He was the President at the time when the military was desegregated (1948)
Harry Truman
300
This government promoted programs under this to help equalize education and job opportunities. This involved making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination.
Affirmative Action
300
Truman
300
Besides MLK, who else was assassinated in 1968
Robert F. Kennedy
400
This was a political party founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale set up to fight against police brutality in the getto.
Black Panther
400
James Meredith is famous helping to ______________ Ole Miss in 1962.
desegregate
400
This Court Case ended school segregation.
Brown V. Board of Education
400
This President called in the 101st Airborne to escort students to school.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
400
Congress passed this to end discrimination in housing.
Civil Rights Act of 1968
400
Freedom Riders
400
Which famous boxer was a leader of the Civil Rights movement and refused to fight in Vietnam because he thought he deserved better rights in the US before fighting a war abroad?
Muhammad Ali
500
Headed by Elijah Muhammad, it counted Malcolm X as a member at one point. This group believed that black people should separate from white society.
Nation of Islam
500
She was the president of the Women's Political Council in Montgomery, Alabama and wrote a letter to the mayor warning of a possible boycott months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
Jo Ann Robinson
500
This piece of legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended discrimination in voting. One way that African Americans were denied their right to vote was through this barrier?
Literacy Test
500
He was president that appointed the Kerner Commission to study violence in the cities.
LBJ
500
Which speech was a highlight of the March on Washington?
I have a Dream
500
500
Malcolm X said that rights for African Americans would either come with ______________ or ____________.
Ballots or Bullets