Legal Aspects
Plessy v. Ferguson established this doctrine, allowing segregation.
What is "separate but equal"?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was sparked by the arrest of this woman.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This U.S. president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Brown v. Board of Education overturned this previous Supreme Court ruling.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Bloody Sunday protest march was held in this state.
What is Alabama?
The Black Panther Party was founded in this decade.
What is the 1960s?
Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in these U.S. states.
What are Southern states?
Even after segregation ended, African Americans still faced discrimination in these areas.
What are housing, jobs, and policing?
Freedom Riders aimed to desegregate this form of transportation.
What are interstate buses?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed these discriminatory voter suppression tactics.
What are literacy tests and poll taxes?
The Little Rock Nine needed protection from this federal force when integrating a white high school.
What is the U.S. Army (101st Airborne Division)?
Southern states used this argument to resist desegregation.
What are states' rights?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned segregation in these two key areas.
What are public places and employment?
These two civil rights organizations were key in organizing nonviolent protests.
What are SNCC and SCLC?
MLK promoted nonviolence, while Malcolm X was known for this philosophy.
What is self-defense (or Black empowerment)?