Matching Terms
A substance that blinds the eyes.
What is tear gas
The year that Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was founded, established after the successful Montgomery bus boycott to coordinate protest activities across the south.
What is 1957?
Members of the Mississippi Democratic Party
Who were the loyalists?
Founded in 1909, organized to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights.
What is the NAACP?
This act prohibits discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A protest where people enter a public facility and refuse to leave until their demands are heard.
What is a sit-in?
The Freedom Rides began in what year.
What is 1961?
The first African American to attend the University of Mississippi.
Who was James Meredith?
Founded in 1960, disbanded in the early 1970s. Started as an interracial group of students advocating nonviolence, supporting the Freedom Rides in 1961 and the March on Washington in 1963.
What is the SNCC?
What act made literacy tests illegal?
What is the Voters Rights Act of 1965?
A protest in which people refuse to buy certain items until certain conditions are met
What is a boycott.
What is 1963?
President of the United States who understood the importance of civil rights.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Founded in 1942, established as a nonviolent approach to combating racial prejudice; inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, held the nation’s first sit-in in a Chicago coffee shop.
What is CORE?
Ruling body of higher education in Mississippi.
A trial that has no legal effect because of some error in the proceedings
What is a mistrial?
The Voters Rights Act of 1965 abolished these.
What is poll tax and literacy tests.
Convicted in killing Medgar Evers
Who was Byron de la Beckwith?
Founded in 1957, established after the successful Montgomery bus boycott to coordinate protest activities across the south.
What is SCLC?
Naval program which allowed naval personnel to attend college
What is the Navy V-12 Program?
The law enforcement officers of a federal judicial district who carry out court orders.
Who are federal marshals?
The murder of a prominent person, usually for political a reason.
What is assassination.
Members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Who were the regulars?
Founded in 1962, disbanded in 1965. A coalition of organizations engaged in civil rights activities in Mississippi, under the leadership of SNCC. Founded to maximize the efforts of SNCC, CORE, and NAACP in voter registration and education in Mississippi.
What is COFO?
The political party created by civil rights leaders.
What is the Freedom Democratic Party?