Segregation
These type of laws aimed at separating races
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This famous court case struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This person was a seamstress and an NAACP officer.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This man believed in peaceful protests
Who is MLK Jr.?
This was the name of a 14 year old boy and African American who had flirted with a white woman and then got killed.
Who is Emmitt Till?
This case ruled "separate but equal" law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment, allowing segregation
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This act ordered school desegregation implemented "with all deliberate speed."
What is Brown II?
Rosa Parks was sitting here when she was asked to get up on the bus
What is the front row of the "colored" section?
This African American leader thought that whites were the cause of the black condition and that blacks should separate from white society.
Who is Malcolm X?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated this
What are literacy tests?
Many African Americans moved here when WWII began for jobs
What is north/ northern cities?
This is the place where the Brown vs. Board of Education took place.
Where is Topeka, Kansas?
This type of protest took place when African Americans stayed at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.
What is a 'sit-in'?
This man called for African Americans to remain peaceful after King's death
Who is Robert Kennedy?
These are programs that involve making special efforts to hire or enroll groups that have suffered discrimination.
What are affirmative action programs?
This is the term that was used for white leaving the cities and moving to the suburbs?
What is 'white flight'?
This famous event happened when 9 black students were trying to go to school
What is the 'Crisis in Little Rock'?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted this many days
What is 381?
President Johnson's money he had for the Great Society Program get redirected to this event
What is the Vietnam War?
This commission found that racism was the cause of Urban violence and that the nation is being separated into two societies.
What is the Kerner Commission?
This type of segregation exists by practice and custom.
What is de facto segregation?
This is what the governor of Arkansas decided to do with the school with 9 African American Students
What is close it?
250,000 people gathered for this event, where MLK Jr. gave his famous, 'I Have a Dream' Speech.
What is the March on Washington?
This Party was formed to fight police brutally in the ghetto.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This man killed MLK Jr.
Who is James Earl Ray?