Leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This is a type of segregation that people enforced.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This encouraged J.F.K. to act.
What are protests?
This is the person that took up the act after the assassination of J.F.K.
Who is President Lydon B. Johnson?
This banned segregation.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This amendment made former slaves citizens.
What is the 14th amendment?
People allowed this in the African American community.
What is violence?
This was the date in which J.F.K proposed a Civil Rights legislation.
What is June 1963?
This supported the House's approval of the bill?
What is a vote of 290-130?
This segregation was banned by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is race-based segregation?
This amendment gave all men the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the 15th amendment?
A group that promoted violence toward African Americans.
What is the K.K.K.?
A law dealing with civil rights of all U.S. citizens.
What is a civil rights legislation?
This supported the Senate's approval of the bill.
What is a vote of 73-27?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned this form of segregation.
What is religion-based segregation?
After the Civil War
When were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments ratified?
It separated white people from colored people in many public facilities.
What is segregation?
This is what J.F.K. said in his legislation.
What is "The United States will not fully be free until all of its citizens are free." ?
This was the date in which Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
What is July 2, 1964?
This was also banned by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is segregation based on national origin?
Although these amendments helped African Americans they did not stop this.
What is being deprived of rights and privileges?
This was one act of violence performed by the K.K.K.
What is beating and killing African Americans in their homes?
These are the people J.F.K. was referring to in his civil rights legislation.
Who are colored people?
This was what Lyndon B. Johnson took upon himself and signed into law.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made sure that blacks and other minorities could no longer be denied service based on this.
What is the color of their skin?