Category 1: Supreme Court Showdowns
What was the 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld “separate but equal” laws?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What method of protest was used by students at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC?
What is a sit-in?
What act outlawed discrimination in public accommodations in 1964?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Who refused to give up her bus seat, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Who is Rosa Parks?
What does de jure segregation refer to?
What is segregation by law?
What was the key legal argument used to strike down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
What 50-mile march inspired national outrage after Bloody Sunday?
What is the Selma to Montgomery march?
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminate?
What are literacy tests?
What minister led the Montgomery Bus Boycott at age 26?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
What does de facto segregation refer to?
What is segregation by custom or practice (not law)?
What year was Brown v. Board of Education decided?
What is 1954?
What was the goal of the Freedom Riders?
What is to test desegregation of interstate travel and provoke enforcement of federal laws?
What act banned housing discrimination in 1968?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
What organization was founded to fight second-class citizenship with nonviolence?
What is the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)?
What housing practice denied loans to African Americans by mapping red areas?
What is redlining?
What was the name of the 1974 case that ordered Boston public schools to desegregate?
What is Morgan v. Hennigan?
Name the two types of nonviolent protest mentioned in the review.
What are marches and sit-ins?
What government body could enroll voters under the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is the federal examiners (Justice Department)?
Who was the 14-year-old boy murdered in Mississippi, sparking national outrage?
Who is Emmett Till?
What tactic involved manipulating white homeowners into selling cheaply due to fear of Black neighbors?
What is blockbusting?
What effect did Plessy v. Ferguson have on segregation laws in the U.S.?
What is it legitimized state-imposed racial segregation for decades?
How did music influence Civil Rights protesters?
What is it unified them, calmed nerves, and came from spiritual and slave traditions?
What prompted President Johnson to call for the Voting Rights Act?
What is Bloody Sunday and the Selma march violence?
How did Malcolm X's approach to the Civil Rights Movement differ from MLK’s?
What is he advocated a more militant, self-defense approach and was less trusting of integration with whites?
What program began busing students in 1966 to improve educational opportunity in Boston?
What is METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity)?