Civil Rights
In response to her arrest, the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott that lasted over a year until the buses desegregated on Dec. 21, 1956. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the newly elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), was instrumental in leading the boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
CORE
What is the Congress of Racial Equality?
In 1868, it was added to the Constitution to grant due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
In 1870, it was added to the Constitution to grant African Americans the right to vote, including former slaves.
What is the 15th Amendment?
In 1955, two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were arrested for the murder for this 14-year-old boy but were acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boasted about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case became a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
SNCC
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee?
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in this case upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad cars. The ruling stated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution dealt with political and not social equality.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
It outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national, and religious minorities.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964?
In September of 1957, policemen surrounded Central High where more than 1,000 people gathered in front of the school. The police escorted these black students to a side door where they quietly entered the building to begin classes. When the mob learned the black students were inside, they began to challenge the police with shouts and threats. Fearful the police would be unable to control the crowd, the school administration moved the black students out a side door before noon.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
He was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a major force in organizing the civil rights movement with a principled belief in nonviolence and civil disobedience
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
SCLC
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimously ruled in this landmark case that public school segregation was unconstitutional and paved the way for desegregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
NAACP field secretary murdered outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963.
Who is Medgar Evers?
This President was assassinated in 1963. Prior to his assassination, he was the first President to support the Civil Rights movement
Who is John F. Kennedy?
He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 19, 1925. This world-renowned black nationalist leader was assassinated in 1965 in Manhattan. He was a Black Muslim Minister, revolutionary black freedom fighter, civil rights activist and for a time the national spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, he famously spoke of the need for black freedom "by any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
NAACP
Congress passed this Act in 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting were made illegal.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
In 1964, the Congress of Racial Equality began sending student volunteers on bus trips to test the implementation of new laws prohibiting segregation in interstate travel facilities. The first group of the _____ as they are called, encountered its first problem two weeks later when a mob in Alabama sets their bus on fire. The program continued and by the end of the summer, more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white, participated.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
In 1955, two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were arrested for the murder for this 14-year-old boy but were acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boasted about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case became a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This prominent lawyer for the NAACP became the very first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed the federal government to enforce desegregation and prohibits discrimination in public facilities, in government and in employment. The ____ laws in the South were abolished, and it became illegal to compel segregation of the races in schools, housing or hiring.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
In 1965, this march, which included the Bloody Sunday attack on peaceful protestors by state police on Edmund Pettus Bridge, marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement and was considered the catalyst for pushing through the Voting Rights Act five months later.
What is the Selma March?
In 1962, when this African-American man attempted to register for class, President Kennedy mobilized the National Guard and sent federal troops to integrate the University of Mississippi campus.
Who is James Meredith?