Civil Rights Leaders
What method of protest did Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC most effectively use?
Nonviolent resistance or Civil Disobedience
What court case ruled that “separate but equal” was constitutional?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
What law outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What were state and local segregation laws commonly called?
What are Jim Crow Laws
What form of protest involved sitting at segregated lunch counters?
What are sit-ins
What was the immediate cause of the Watts Riot?
What is a charge of police brutality?
Who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?
Who is Rosa Parks
What lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of school segregation laws?
What is Brown v. Board of Education
What law banned housing discrimination?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968? or the Fair Housing Act
What term describes segregation caused by tradition or practice, not law?
What is de facto segregation?
Where was the first sit-in held?
What is Greensboro, North Carolina?
Which group armed themselves to protect African Americans from police brutality?
Who are the Black Panthers?
Who was the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi?
Who is James Meredith
What court case outlawed bans on interracial Marriage?
What is Loving vs. Virginia
What did Executive Order 9981, issued by President Truman, accomplish?
What is desegregation of the armed forces?
What housing practice banned selling homes to African Americans?
What is a restrictive covenant?
What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is the integration of Montgomery's bus system and MLK becoming a national leader?
What major civil rights event took place one year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What is the March on Washington?
Which civil rights leader promoted black nationalism and rejected nonviolence early on?
Who is Malcolm X
Which case ruled that race can be considered but strict quotas are unconstitutional?
What 1965 law required federal supervision of voter registration?
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Why were black schools often poorly funded?
What is because Southern states spent more on white schools?
What campaign tested federal orders to desegregate interstate travel?
What are the Freedom Rides?
What concept did W.E.B. Du Bois refer to when he said blacks were "living behind the veil"?
What is the feeling of living separated and masking true emotions around whites?
What famous attorney became the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
Which Supreme Court case upheld the use of busing as a method to achieve school desegregation?
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education?
What government action was designed to make up for past discrimination by hiring minorities and women?
What is affirmative action?
What practice involved redrawing district lines to give one group an advantage?
What is gerrymandering?
What religion did Malcolm X initially promote before converting later?
What is the Nation of Islam?
What was the purpose of Afrocentrism in education?
What is to offset European-centered bias and promote African-American culture?