Taking on Segregation
What outlawed segregation after the Civil War?
Civil Rights Act of 1875
What are the CORE members called that went on a historic bus ride to test desegregation in the South?
Freedom Riders
What is de jure segregation?
Racism/segregation by law
Who didn't give up her seat in the "colored section" of a Montgomery, Alabama bus and was arressted.
Rosa Parks
What court case ended Civil Rights in the 19th century?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What Muslim leader helped change the movement from nonviolent to fighting back?
Malcolm X
Name MLK's 4 major influences.
1. Jesus 2. Thoreau 3. Randolph 4. Gandhi
What were segregation laws called in the South?
Jim Crow Laws
What was the goal of the Freedom Riders?
To provoke violence and have newspapers denounce the violence to force President Kennedy's support
The call for black people to begin to define their own goals and lead their own orgainzations.
Black Power
What was the group of children called that desegregated schools in Arkansas?
Little Rock 9
What set the stage for the Civil Rights movment in the 20th century?
Black soldiers coming back from WWII
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What was appointed to study causes of urban violence?
Kerner Commission
When was MLK assassinated?
April 4, 1968
What court case ended segreation in schools?
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas
The campaign to register as many African Americans as possible to vote was called what?
Freedom Summer
What was passed with the intention of ending discrimination in housing?
Civil Rights Act of 1968
What were programs that involved making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination?
Affirmative Action