Vocabulary
Policy or attitude that denies equal rights and treatment to certain groups of people.
What is discrimination
Gave an influential speech stating his dreams for the future and seeing an end to discrimination and segregation.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King.
This amendment was passed in 1868, which prohibited states from denying people their rights and due process. It calls for all people to have "equal protection of the laws."
What is the 14th Amendment.
Name a Peaceful protest used during the civil Rights Movement.
What is Bus Boycott
March to Selma
Sit ins
Basic freedoms guaranteed to citizens by the constitution.
What is civil rights.
To separate people on the basis of race, class, or ethnicity, or other differences.
What is segregation.
Sat down for an end to segregation by refusing to give up her seat to a white male.
Who is Rosa Parks.
This amendment gave all citizens the right to vote. It prohibits the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment.
People who were black and white rode the bus together into the deep south.
Who are the Freedom Riders.
Legislation passed by southern states in the 1800s and 1900s to force the segregation of races.
What is Jim Crow Laws.
An organization formed to protect the rights of African Americans. The mission was to ensure the political, educational, social and economic quality of rights of all people and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
A black group formed in the late 1960 and emphasized black power and rights of African Americans all over the country
Who is Black Panther.
Whose case took only 27 minutes to find two white men not guilty for the murder of a young black teen.
What is Emett Till.
People did not ride the bus to protest segregation.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
This act gave African American Men the right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
An assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy.
What is prejudice.
The president who was assassinated before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.
Who is John F. Kennedy.
The Court believed that the idea of "separate but equal" facilities was not a denial of equal protection under the law.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
Sitting at an appropriate place and refusing to move. For example, sitting at an "All White" lunch counter.
What is a sit-in.
Which Act Outlawed major forms of discrimination. Name the Act and the Year
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
College students used a non-violent protest tactic called what to desegregate whites only lunch counters.
What is sit ins.
He became president after John F. Kennedy died.
Who is Lyndon Johnson.
The court stated, "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
To avoid integration of schools, some school districts did this...
Intimidated those who enrolled blacks.
Plessy vs Ferguson stated that __________ but __________ was lawful in education and other places.
What is "Seperate but Equal".