Vocab
Segregation
What is the action or state of setting something apart from others?
What is.. the 1965 Voting Rights Act?
What is.. an act allowing African Americans the ability to get around barriers making them unable to vote. One of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation.
Who is.. Rosa Parks?
What is.. one of the first figures in the Civil Rights Movement, known for being unconstitutionally arrested from refusal to give up her seat.
EC: When did the friendship nine do the sit in?
What is.. 1961?
What was.. the Orangeburg Massacre?
What is.. an event where SC State students were killed in Orangeburg, SC after many students protested segregation.
Oppressive
What is unjustly inflicting hardship/constraint, especially on a minority or other group?
What is.. the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What is.. a labor law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
Who is.. Martin Luther King Jr.?
What is.. a well known Civil rights activist for people of color, promoted peaceful protesting.
EC:What year was the New Year's Day March?
What is.. 1960?
What was.. the Charleston Hospital Strike?
A strike organized in Charleston, SC where workers protested unequal pay and unsafe working conditions.
Boycott
What is an act of nonviolent, voluntary abstinence from a product, person, organization, or country to protest?
What is.. the March on Washington?
What is.. A large scale protest on Washington by the Washington Monument, where many important Civil Rights Activists gave speeches.
(Bonus!) What did Abraham Lincoln issue to end slavery and which amendment did it become?
What is.. the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is.. Plessy vs. Ferguson?
What is.. Supreme Court declaring in trial that blacks and whites could be "separate but equal"
When was.. racial segregation declared unconstitutional? (Bonus if you say what case this declaration originated from.)
What is.. 1954?
Discriminate
What is unjustfully treating different categories of people, especially based off ethnicity, gender, age, or disability?
What is.. the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
What is.. a 13 month long Boycott against the Montgomery Bus Company, involving over 30k African Americans, a result of Rosa Parks' arrest.
Who is.. Ruby Bridges?
What is.. the first African American kid in the south to go to an all-white elementary school.
Daily Double! + EC! When did Ruby Bridges go to the all-white school?
What is.. November 1960
When were Jim Crow Laws made in the south?
What is.. the late 19th century?
Unconstitutional (Bonus!)
What is a law, action, or policy that violate, contradict, or exceed the U.S Constitution?
What is.. the 1948 Election?
What is.. Truman desegregating the armed forces and advancing Civil Rights.
What is.. a prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement, and an African American leader that showed race pride and black nationalism.
What is.. Executive Order 8802?
A response to a threat of a Washington March, prohibited racial and ethnic discrimination in the U.S defense industry and government employment.
When was.. the Civil Rights Act passed?
What is.. 1964?