Civil Rights Leaders
Who is in 1963 gave the famous "I have a dream" speech?
Who is Martin Luther King
These sit-ins were protest that were done at what type of facility?
What is dinners/restaurants
In 1896, the court case of Plessy V. Ferguson stated that?
What is separate but equal
What woman refused her seat on a bus to a white man, this started the Montgomery bus boycott
What is Rosa Parks
What does Segregation mean?
What is each race kept separate from each other
What Civil rights leader did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and taught that African Americans should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted on them.
What is Malcom X
What law was signed by President Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
What is the civil rights act of 1964
In 1954 the Brown V. Board of Education case determined that?
What is segregation of the American public schools was illegal.
He was a young child who was beaten to death after being accused of offending a white woman. The photo of his corpse was published and shocked Americans into fighting for civil rights
Who is Emmett Till
What does desegregation mean
What is the races are not kept separated from one another
What Civil rights leader thought that segregation should end now! Blacks should not have to wait or try to earn their equality from whites. Blacks should have the option to have whatever education they wanted.
What is W.E.B. Du Bois
9 African American students were enrolled in a white school in 1957.
What is the little rock nine
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to?
What is end segregation
A terrorist group that hoped to deny African Americans equal rights as citizens
What is the Ku Klux Klan
Sometimes it is necessary to disobey unjust laws and to work to have them changed. What statement most accurately reflects this idea?
What is civil disobedience
Led by Roy Wilkins and focused on legal action during the Civil rights movement, what is the name of this group of people?
What is the National Association of the advancement of colored people (NAACP)
what event brought over 250,000 people to the nation's capital to peacefully demand civil rights, economic justice and to end segregation?
What is the March on Washington
Literacy tests, polls taxes and grandfather clause was put into place to?
What is prevent African Americans from voting
What United States President signed the Civil Rights act of1964?
What is Lyndon Johnson
Led by James Farmer and was famous for the freedom rides
What is CORE (Congress of racial Equality)
Pioneer in the civil rights movement, gunned down in the driveway of his home after leaving a NAACP meeting. The first NAACP field secretary.
Who is Medgar Evers
In 1965 three protest walks in Alabama became a turning point in the civil rights movement demanding voting rights.
What is the March on Selma
African Americans must enter using the backdoor, they can not drink out of the same water fountains as whites, and they must not attend the same schools what is this?
What is Jim crow
By joining the Nation of Islam and refusing to the 1967 draft, he was able to advocate for black pride and became controversial yet powerful symbol of the civil rights
Landmark supreme court case that established the requirement to inform criminal suspects of their constitutional rights before custodial interrogation is what?
Miranda V. Arizona/ Miranda Rights