important people
Who was the president who was not proud of the actions toward African Americans who was later shot and killed?
Who is JFK?
This group was well known for its opposition to racial integration. Its issues involved the protection of "European-American heritage" from those of other ethnicities.
What was the White Citizens' Council?
Martin Luther King Jr. encourages this amongst his followers at the start of the civil rights movement.
What is non-violence?
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
The forced enrollment of this African American student caused a riot at this university.
What is Ole' Miss or University of Mississippi?
who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Who is Rosa Parks
This was the name of a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 in an attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters
What is the Freedom Summer?
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Who was the president who sent troops in to Arkansas to help enforce integration of schools?
Who is Dwight Eisenhower
African Americans and whites together rode various forms of public transportation in the South to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation
What are the Freedom Riders?
MLK was the leader of this Civil Rights organization.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminate?
What are literacy tests?
MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.
What is the March on Washington?
In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out his state's National Guard to block these students from entering high school.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
This boy's murder is noted as one of the leading events that motivated the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
Who is the senator who was a major fighter for civil rights and running for president?
Who is Robert Kennedy?
What two leaders were shot and killed in 1968?
Who are Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy
Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement
What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
Quote: "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Who is George Wallace?
This protest attracted nationwide attention but failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition.
What is the Albany Protest?
helped organize the historic March on Washington in August 1963 and participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery marches in 1965 and the March Against Fear in Mississippi in 1966
Who is Roy Wilkins
The 24th amendment outlawed this.
What are poll taxes?
This was an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964 to challenge the legitimacy of the white-only US Democratic Party.
What is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party?
SNCC
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee?
He was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era
Who was Jackie Robinson?