Early Civil Rights
This term describes the separation of people based on race in society.
Segregation
This Supreme Court case in the late 19th Century legalized segregation in the United States.
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Civil Disobedience
This group of students were escorted into a high school in Arkansas after schools were desegregated.
Little Rock Nine
He was the most influential civil rights leader the promoted peaceful protests across the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr.
These laws were passed in the late 19th Century and continued on into the 20th Century permitting segregation.
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson created this idea that allowed for segregation in the United States.
"Separate but Equal"
These were started in Montgomery, Alabama after Rosa Parks refused to move on a bus.
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
He became the first African American Major League Baseball player, which pushed civil rights awareness.
Jackie Robinson
She became famous when she refused to give up her seat on a bus, which started the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
Rosa Parks
This form of segregation was found in written and passed laws.
De Jure Segregation
This Supreme Court case in 1954 ended segregation in public schools across the United States.
Brown v. Board of Education.
This form of protest involved African Americans refusing to move from counters in restaurants.
Sit-Ins
This group fought for migrant workers in the Southwest
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Major civil rights leader that promoted more violent methods, but was assassinated by his own followers.
Malcolm X
This form of segregation is not written into law and was found in the North as well.
De Facto Segregation
This group was the most influential in fighting for African American rights, and argued many cases in the Supreme Court.
NAACP
Aim members took over this abandoned island to win back "seized land."
Alcatraz
This legislation outlawed segregation in all public facilities across the United States.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
He argued in the Supreme Court for the NAACP and became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
Provide me with 2 examples of how segregation negatively affected African Americans in the United States.
Low-paying jobs, high rates of poverty and illiteracy, low homeownership and life expectancy, and couldn't vote.
This President of the United States enforced Brown v. Board by sending federal troops to Arkansas.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
AIM took over this federal building in protest against violations of past tribal treaties.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
This legislation ended voting discrimination in the United States.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What was the major difference between MLK JR. and Malcolm X. How did this affect people's thoughts on the Civil Rights movement?
MLK Jr was more peaceful. Malcolm X promoted more violent tactics. People responded more to MLK's Tactics