Civil Rights leaders
The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities
What is dinners/ restaurants / lunch counters
The case that made segregation in American public schools illegal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and African Americans act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them. Also credited with raising self esteem of Black Americans and reconnecting them to their African heritage.
Who is Malcolm X?
State and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early-to-mid-20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Organized for rights of migrant workers and helped lead the Delgado Grape Strike and Grape Boycott. Formed the NFWA and the United Farm Workers.
Who is Cesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta?
Economic boycott protesting segregation in Montgomery's bus system.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Type of segregation where there is still segregation in society without laws to enforce it.
De facto segregation.
Protestors of different races tested segregation laws by traveling across states. (interstate travel).
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Riots in Los Angeles in 1965 caused by allegations of police brutality and the arrest of a black motorist.
What are the Watts Riots?
Group founded to preserve Native American rights and heritage.
What is A.I.M.? (The American Indian Movement)