Civil Rights and Education
Supreme Court case that challenged Plessy v. Ferguson and was influential in Brown v. Board of Education.
What is Sweatt v. Painter?
Laws in the South that were meant to disenfranchise African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Speech MLK gave during the March on Washington.
What is the "I Have A Dream" speech?
A pioneering African American reporter who counted, investigated, and reported lynchings in America as no one had done before.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Woman who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Supreme court case that ruled segregation in schools as unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Three Reconstruction Amendments passed to protect African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Protest organized by college students in Greensboro, North Carolina that later led to the creation of SNCC.
What are the lunch counter sit-ins (also known as the Greensboro sit-ins)?
Organization that used non-violence and was dedicated to strengthening local communities (HINT: created after lunch counter sit-ins).
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
They were groups of white and African American Civil Rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
Who are Freedom Riders?
Head NAACP lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" is constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Boycott that was started in Montgomery, AL after an African American woman refused to give up her seat and was arrested.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Organization that used the court system to challenge inequalities for African Americans in the U.S.
What is the NAACP?
Event where three Civil Rights volunteers went missing and whose bodies were later found buried on a farm during Freedom Summer.
What is Mississippi Burning?
Nine African Americans who tested the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in Arkansas to see if the federal gov would enforce the ruling.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Legislation that was passed to ensure the 15th amendment was protected.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Meant to challenge segregation on interstate buses.
What are the Freedom Rides?
Organization created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 initially in response to police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party? (Also known as the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.)
She defied Virginia authorities by refusing to change her seat on a segregated bus in Virginia in 1944. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP took on her case.
Who is Irene Morgan?
These schools were developed in Mississippi in 1964 during Freedom Summer.
What are Freedom Schools?
The name of the event organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to increase the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi.
What is Freedom Summer? (Also referred to as the Mississippi Summer Project.)
This 1953 bus boycott in Baton Rouge, LA included a “free-ride” network that sustained the boycott. It was a method later adopted in Montgomery, AL.
What is the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott?
As a 6-year-old child, she became a symbol of courage and equality when she desegregated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, escorted by federal marshals past a screaming mob.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This abolitionist and a friend entered a Massachusetts train car reserved for white passengers. Their actions led to similar incidents on the Eastern Railroad.
Who is Frederick Douglass?