SCOTUS
This Supreme Court case overturned “separate but equal” in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This action best shows the use of economic pressure during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Civil rights leader associated with nonviolent protest and the SCLC.
MLK jr.
Native American organization known for direct action and confrontation with the federal government.
What is the American Indian Movement?
The name for the growing divide between the North and the South before the Civil War:
What is sectionalism?
This law made segregation illegal in public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Violent scenes during this march helped build support for federal voting rights legislation.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
Leader who appealed to frustration and argued for a more militant approach.
Malcolm X
This event involved Native American activists occupying federal land to demand rights.
What is the Alcatraz Occupation?
The Constitution is the brain and bones of the the country, while the _________________ might be described as the heart of the Nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This law banned literacy tests and allowed federal officials to register voters.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
his 1963 demonstration is where Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This former secretary of the NAACP refused to comply with rules on the bus & was arrested.
Rosa Parks
This leader organized farm workers using civil rights movement tactics.
Who was César Chávez?
The __________ _______ was a time in American history characterized by extreme growth in wealth, heightened poverty, industrialization, immigration, and the first time that more Americans lived in cities than on farms.
The Gilded Age
This law focused most directly on ending segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This mass protest used economic pressure against segregated buses in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
SNCC organizer connected to voter registration efforts in Mississippi.
Who is Robert Moses?
AIM Stands for...
American Indian Movement
This President is often credited with pulling the nation from the Great Depression. Who is he, and what was his "big plan"?
FDR, the New Deal
This SCOTUS precedent was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy vs Ferguson
Activists who challenged segregation in interstate bus travel and terminals.
Freedom Riders
First African American student to attend the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
Boycotts, sit-ins, marches, and freedom rides were effective because they used this strategy.
Harlem Renaissance