Vocabulary
The practice of keeping people sepereate, usually based on race.
What is Segregation?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
What line did civil right's supporters use from the declaration of independence to support their cause?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
A protest rally in the capital to support civil right's legislation in 1963, with 250,000 attendees.
What is the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
The event in 1968 that is the traditional end to The Civil Rights Movement.
What is the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr?
The legal doctrine that believed that states had certain powers the federal government couldn't take away.
What is State's Rights?
A civil rights organization that focused on fighting legal battles to enforce laws and the constitution, and was insturmental in the Brown v. Board of Education court case.
What was the NAACP?
Some Americans who opposed federal enforcement of desegregation claimed that change should occur...
gradually and locally.
A electronic device that greatly increased civil rights protests to spread the sights and sounds of violent backlash from White authorities in the South and garner greater support from moderates.
What is television?
The act of protesting a set of circumstances by acting against unjust laws and customs, expecting violent responses, but not defending yourself.
What is non-violent protest?
A Black leader who initially believed White and Black Americans could not live together in an equal society, but changed his thinking after a Hajj to Mecca, and was assassinated in 1965 by members of his old separatist organization.
Who is Malcolm X?
During the Cold War, supporters argued that segregation...
weakened the U.S. position as a defender of freedom.
A cultural movement among African Americans to encourage pride in their African heritage and to substitute African and African American art forms, behaviors, and cultural products for those of White people
What is Black Pride?
The response to desegregation in the south by grassroots groups and governemnt officials.
What is Massive Resistence?
An Organization that grew out of the Sit-In movement of 1960 that empowered young people to protest segregation and other injustices.
What is the Student Nonviolent (or National) Coordinating Committee?