Civil Rights Acts
This congressional act ended segregation in all public places
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Was a proponent of nonviolence and integration
Martin Luther King Jr.
Used strikes and boycotts against California growers to get better pay and better working conditions
Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
A concentration of urban African Americans in slum areas is an example of what
De Facto Segregation
Numerous frustrated Native Americans acted out against the U.S. government and took matters into their own hands after decades of inaction and seized what island
Alcatraz
This banned the use of poll taxes to keep African Americans from voting
24th Amendment
Preached a more militant approach to civil rights
Malcolm X
Thousands of civil rights workers spread throughout the South to help blacks register to vote
Freedom Summer
In this city police shocked the nation by using fire hoses and attack dogs in their response to civil rights protestors. It led JFK to declare that it was time increase the government’s commitment to civil rights
Birmingham, Alabama
This person led the way in the desegregation on sports in the United States
Jackie Robinson
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
Improved voter registration among minorities
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Were famous for their 10 Point Program, Black Power, and Black Nationalism
Black Panther Party
Their protests brought about a federal ban on segregation on all interstate travel and travel facilities
Freedom Riders
The governor blocked them from entering the school,
The president sent federal troops to protect black students
Black students were harassed by white students and parents
Little Rock 9
The beating and subsequent blinding of this Army sergeant was an early event in the modern civil rights movement
Isaac Woodard
Overturned Plessy v Ferguson by ruling that separate public schools were unconstitutional
Brown v Board of Education
In Oklahoma, this woman led multiple civil rights protests, including sit-ins. She was arrested 26 times for her activism.
Clara Luper
This group's major goal was to obtain greater understanding of the American-Indian point of view
AIM
an ambitious series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment.
Great Society
This group often made rulings that supported civil liberties
Warren Court
Poll taxes and Jim Crow Laws are examples of what
De jure segregation
The first president of the National Organization of Women and author of The Feminine Mystique, which showed women were widely disaffected with life as a homemaker
Betty Friedan
Main goal of this group was end the segregation of African Americans and white Americans through the judicial system
NAACP
2 early cases involving the desegregation of higher education happened in which state
Oklahoma
In which state did the first big challenge to Brown v Board happen
Arkansas