Civil Rights Organizations
Organization that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. founded.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
This Indian lawyer's writings and practices inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and other nonviolent American Civil Rights protesters.
Who is Mohatma Gandhi?
President in 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and in 1957 when National Guard troops later integrated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Name of the court case that the Supreme Court passed in 1954, officially ending legal segregation in public schools.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas ?
Violent riots that occurred in this neighborhood in Los Angeles in 1965. For six days, more than 50,000 black residents rioted to protest poverty, racism, and continued unemployment.
What are the Watts Riots?
In 1955 this woman protested a Jim Crow law preventing her from sitting in the front of a bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
In 1962, when James Meredith attempted to register for class, he mobilized the National Guard and sent federal troops to integrate the University of Mississippi campus.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
A series of protests aimed at the desegregation of buses in the South beginning in 1961.
What are "Freedom Rides"?
City where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rose to national fame after he took charge of the bus boycott in 1955.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
Organization founded by James Farmer. On May 4, 1961 journeyed to the deep South in an effort to end segregation in interstate travel and testing segregated bus terminals.
What is Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.)?
First leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
On July 2, 1964 he signed The Civil Rights Act into law
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
Term for racist laws and social orders in the American South that kept blacks separate from and subordinate to whites.
What is Jim Crow?
City where a series of nonviolent protests took place in North Carolina in 1960 which led to the Woolworth Department Store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the southern United States.
Where is Greensboro, North Carolina?
Founded in early 1960 to capitalize on the success of "sit-ins" in Southern college towns, where black STUDENTS refused to leave restaurants in which they were denied service based on their race.
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC?)
Group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
What are "The Little Rock 9?"
In August 6, 1965, he passed the Voting Rights Act. It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote.
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
One of the largest political rallies in American history. More than 200,000 blacks and whites gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
What is "The March on Washington"?
City where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
Civil Rights organization founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale that did not employ nonviolent methods of protest.
What is the Black Panthers?
Third Chairmen of Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
In January 1st 1863, he passed the very first Civil Rights legislation called the Emancipation Proclamation. This executive order proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the United States.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
Police attacked thousands of peaceful black protesters petitioning the government for the right to vote in Selma, Alabama on Sunday March 7th, 1965.
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
Name of the state where James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were murdered in 1964. Also state where Medgar Evers, Civil rights Activist and leader of the state chapter of the NAACP, was murdered.
What is Mississippi?