Vocab
The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are forced to adopt the dominant culture of a society.
What is assimilation?
He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
This court case overturned the constitutionality of separate but equal.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This group was formed to further push for equality on behalf of African Americans in 1909
What is the NAACP?
The primary goal of this group was to secure equal rights for Mexican Americans.
What is the Chicano Movement?
This part of LA was where students protested the unfair treatment of Latinx students in schools
What is East LA?
Laws enforced strict separation of the races in the South
What are Jim Crow laws?
The concept of "Red Power" is associated with empowering this group of people in the United States.
Who are the Native Americans?
This SC decision claimed that separate accommodations for blacks and whites did not violate the constitution
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This group was founded by Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
This activist preached a militant (BAMN) approach to civil rights
Who is Malcolm X?
The meaning of “huelga”.
What is strike?
Type of segregation imposed by law
What is de jure segregation?
These black students sat down in a white diner and were told that they would not be served.
Who are the Greensboro Four?
This was the goal of African American and white volunteers during the Freedom Summer
What is to register African American voters?
This Native American movement helped to push civil rights issues in the 1960s.
What is the American Indian Movement?
The 5-year long strike where workers refused to work for growers who were not treating their workers well was known as __________.
What is the Delano Grape Strike?
This group was heavily influenced by the Black Panthers and provided protection for the Walk Outs
Who are the Brown Berets?
A form of protest where people refuse to leave a place until their demands are met.
What is a sit-in?
The first person arrested for not giving up their seat on a segregated bus.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This act helped enforce the 14th Amendment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Cesar Chavez's most notable ally in the fight for farm workers' rights
Who is Dolores Huerta?
The occupation of this site by Native American activists in 1973 drew attention to indigenous issues
What is Alcatraz Island?
In the Cesar Chavez film, this minority group (not Latino) is also fighting for freedom and dignity that poverty has denied them.
What are Filipinos?
What is redlining?
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect this group of African American students and to enforce Brown vs. Board of Education.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
The government action that was intended to ensure that African Americans could exercise their Fifteenth Amendment rights
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This group sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism.
What is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
In August 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., led a huge march in this city that culminated in his "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is Washington, D.C.?
In the movie Walkout, this was the name of the teacher who helped.
Who is Sal Castro?
This program allowed millions of Mexican citizens to enter the United States temporarily to work on farms, railroads, and in factories
What is the Bracero Program?
The leader of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary organization advocating for black empowerment.
Who is Huey P. Newton?
This act prohibited housing discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
This group was a symbol of young militant African Americans. They protected urban neighborhoods from police abuse and created anti-poverty programs for their community.
Who are the Black Panthers?
This president was forced to send federal troops to protect African American students seeking entry into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The 5 high schools that participated in the LA Walkouts
What are Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Belmont, & Garfield?