Early C.R.M.
Legislation that granted freedom for all.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Supreme court decision that prohibited racial segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in areas where blacks had been discouraged from voting - most notably the South
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Who was the leader of the Black Panther party?
Who is Huey P. Newton?
Who was the most known leader of the Civil Rights Movement during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Jim Crow Laws were laws set up in the South after the end of the Reconstruction era to separate Blacks from Whites.
What is de jure segregation?
A women that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts in 1955 during her refusal to move to the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
MLK delivered his famous " I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 here.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
A student led committee that represented a generation of black activists who participated in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
What was the SNCC?
The man who believed in violent protests, and opposed MLK's views.
Who is Malcolm X?
In 1896, a Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality - also known as separate but equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A group of nine African American students who challenged racial segregation and were protected by the elite 101st Airborne Division.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
Civil Rights activists decided to focus their desegregation efforts on interstate buses that rode through the American South in 1961.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
Develop into a Marxist revolutionary group that called for the arming of African Americans.
What is the Black Panther party?
The first admitted African American man to the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
An intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in New York, spanning the 1920s was also known as the "New Negro Movement"
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The death of a fourteen-year old boy that galvanizing support for racial reform in the South.
What is the murder of Emmett Till?
The destruction of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church said to be one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the Civil Rights movement and evoked criticism and outrage from around the world.
What is the Birmingham Bombings?
In search of a new cultural identity based on Africa and Islam they focused on Black Nationalism, separation, and self-improvement
Who are Black Muslims?
The leader of the black service staff of the Pullman railroad cars. It was the first African-American labor union and threatened to bring 100,000 black job seekers to Washington, D.C
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
Founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee. Founders Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, and others led the call to renew the struggle for civil and political liberty.
What is the NAACP?
(1955-1956) After the arrest of Rosa Parks, African Americans continued bus boycotts in a city of Alabama over the span of 13 months. This eventually led to the Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation on city buses in Montgomery.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era.
What is the Watts Riots?
One of the founders to help initiate the first meeting of SNCC. She issued a sit-in at a lunch counter which excluded African Americans in Greensboro
Who is Ella Baker?
The first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis
Who is Ruby Bridges?