Civil Rights leaders/people
Who was a minister, social activist, led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and gave the "I have a Dream" speech? He used the Peaceful Protest strategy.
What is Martin Luther King
The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities
What is dinners/ restaurants
Jim Crow laws were put into place to?
What is keep African Americans from getting their full equality
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
What is Rosa Parks
What does segregation mean?
What is each race is kept separate from each other
What Civil rights leader urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary.”?
What is Malcolm X
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin?
What is Civil Rights act of 1964
In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?
What is stated that separate but equal was constitutional
What is the group with the purpose to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality called?
What is the Black Panthers
What does desegregation mean?
What is the races are not kept separated from each other, everyone is treated equally.
What Civil Rights leader refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955. She helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States.
What is Rosa Parks
Which law aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
What Voting Rights Act of 1965
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
What is the segregation of American public schools was illegal
What terrorist group wearing white hoods hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
What is the Ku Klux Klan
what Amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
What is 14th Amendment
Who was Governor of Arkansas known for during the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, using the Arkansas National Guard to stop African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of federally ordered racial desegregation?
What is Orval Faubus
what was the executive order issued on July 26, 1948 that abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services?
What is (Desegregation of Armed Forces) Executive Order 9981
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to?
What is end segregation based on race
What was the name of the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was murdered for talking to a white woman? The photo of his corpse was published & shocked Americans into fighting for civil rights.
What is Emmett Till
What Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude?
What is 13th Amendment
Who was the African American Lawyer that won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools?
What is Thurgood Marshall
what was the struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States?
What is African American Civil Rights Movement
Literacy tests, Poll Taxes & the Grandfather Clause was put into place to?
What is prevent African Americans from voting
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
What is Lyndon B. Johnson
who is the group of black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school.
What is the Little Rock Nine