Terms
Unfair treatment based on race
Discrimination
Sat on a bus seat in the "white's only" seating area
Rosa Parks
Alabama governor who attempted to block African American students from entering the University of Alabama.
George Wallace
All children have a right to equal educational opportunities due to this act
Education for All Handicapped Children's Act
This group traveled to the south to find out if officials were enforcing newly ordered Supreme Court rulings on bus segregation
The Freedom riders
Income level required to attain necessities
Poverty Line
Arkansas governor who tried to stop African American students from entering Central High School
Orval Faubus
MLK Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of this man's memorial
Abraham Lincoln
This Supreme Court case allowed for "separate but equal" facilities for African Americans, including schools
Plessy v. Ferguson
The program, begun under Johnson, helped fund public housing for low income families
HUD
Breaking laws that are meant to cause injustice towards people
Civil disobedience
Civil rights leader who was criticized for his belief that blacks and whites were better to live apart from each other
Malcolm X
This organization was created by James Farmer and George Houser
C.O.R.E
President Kennedy was shot and killed in this U.S. city
Dallas
This act outlawed discrimination in public places and employment on the basis of race, gender, religion, or national origin
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Rights having to do with citizens and their government
Civil rights
She urged students to participant in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Ella Baker
Following JFK's assassination, the Warren Commission concluded that this man acted alone in the killing of the president
Lee Harvey Oswald
This Supreme Court case concluded, "In the filed of education, the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are ...unequal"
Brown V. Boards of Education
A group of women in 1966, known as _____________, created the National Organization for Women (NOW) to fight for equal rights for women
Feminists
Under Johnson's Great society, this program was passed to offer health insurance for elderly people
Medicare
He was tried and found guilty of assassinating MLK Jr.
James Earl Ray
He wrote a "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
MLK Jr.
This law gave the federal government the power to force local official to let African Americans register to vote
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This organization was at the forefront of taking on school segregation with the work of its chief lawyer Thurgood Marshall
NAACP