Civil Rights leaders
The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities
dinners/ restaurants
Jim Crow laws were put into place to?
keep African Americans from getting their full equality
What does segregation mean?
Discrimination by separating people
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
Civil Rights act of 1964
In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?
stated that separate but equal was constitutional
Who was the first Black child to attend an all-white public school in the SOuth of the U.S ?
Ruby Bridges
What does desegregation mean?
people of 'different' races not kept separated from each other
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?
escape segregation & find better jobs
What year did Rosa Parks pass away ?
Rosa Parks passes away in 2005 at age 92.
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality Black people should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust african americans should be morally obligated to not follow it but accept the consequences. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.
Martin Luther King
Why did African Americans stop taking the bus for a year ?
They did not want to put up with unjust laws and discrimination
What was the name of the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was murdered for talking to a white woman?
Emmett Till
What document states “All men are created equa..."
Declaration of Independence
What civil rights leader was an important figure in creating Black Nationalism?
Malcolm X
In the past, what prevented African Americans from voting?
Unjust literacy (reading) tests, paying money at the voting poll (place where you vote)