Groups and People
Name of the first group of African Americans to attend a public school.
Who are The Little Rock 9?
What did supporters of the civil rights movement do to encourage congress to pass the Civil Rights Bill.
What is march on Washington DC?
The Supreme Court decision to ban segregation in schools.
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?
Most influential leader of the Civil Rights Movement who believed in peaceful protest.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Segregation by practice or custom.
What is De Facto segregation?
President who tried to push through the Civil Rights act before he was assassinated.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The pledge 100 southern congressmen made to oppose integration of schools.
What was the Southern Manifesto?
A previous Supreme Court ruling that Brown vs. The Board of Education struck down.
African American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
MLK did this at the civil rights march on Washington.
What is gave the "I have a dream" speech?
First Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
The movement in Alabama to protest segregated public transportation.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Banned discrimination in public facilities and in employment.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Civil Rights leader who advocated black pride and armed resistance.
Who is Malcom X?
MLK did this after getting arrested at the Birmingham, Alabama protest?
What is write "A letter from Birmingham Jail"?
President who avoided enforcing segregation laws until southern states challenged federal authority.
Who was President Eisenhower?
Civil rights activists who rode buses to the deep south to test whether buses and public facilities were truly desegragated.
Prohibited discrimination in sale, rental, and financing of housing.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
Organization that promoted militant self defense for African Americans.
Who are the Black Panthers?
City with the most intense race riots in the 1960s.
What is Watts?
Arkansas Governor who closed schools rather than integrate them.
Who is Governor Faubus?
Name of the time period in which civil rights activists went to the south to register African Americans to vote.
Made poll taxes and literacy tests for voting illegal.
Leader of the Black Power movement.
Who was Stokley Carmichael?
Organization started by MLK whose goal was peaceful protests.
What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?