JFK 1
Who shot JFK?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who did JFK run against for President?
Richard Nixon
What was considered the most racist city in the country?
Birmingham
Which famous speech did MLK give in Washington D.C.?
"I Have a Dream"
Who did James Earl Ray murder?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are the years of Kennedy's presidency referred to as?
Camelot
What was the name of LBJ's famous commercial against nuclear weapons?
Daisy commercial
How were "freedom riders" treated?
bombed and beaten
Which issue was the first one addressed by the Civil Rights Movement?
education
Arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
Rosa Parks
What was one of the two reasons people were hesitant to vote for JFK?
supported MLK, appearance on television
What was the name of the laws that enforced segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
Who were the Little Rock 9?
First black students to integrate an Arkansas white school
Believed in violence to achieve equality
Malcolm X
The name of Kennedy's legislative program
New Frontier
Who becomes president after Kennedy is shot?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What was Freedom Summer?
attempt to increase black voter registration
MLK's believe in civil disobedience was patterned after whose beliefs?
Gandhi
The name of the black militancy group led by Huey Newton
Black Panthers
What was LBJ's legislative program called?
Great Society
Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald?
Jack Ruby
Plessy v Ferguson originated this famous phrase about segregation
"separate but equal"
What was the name of the court case that ruled segregated schools unconstitutional?
Brown v Board of Education
The NAACP lawyer who successfully argued that segregated schools were not equal
Thurgood Marshall