Civil Rights Acts And Amendments
What Act guaranteed federal oversight in polls and over qualifications of voters?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This type of protest was started by the Greensboro 4, who were students who wanted to desegregate restaurant counters
Sit-ins
Who is the person who became famous for refusing to give up her seat on the public bus in Alabama?
Rosa Parks
Which Organization was involved in the Case of Brown v Board of Education?
NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
First African American man to break the color barrier in professional sports
Jackie Robinson
Which Act ended discrimination in the work force?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What was the event that led to the desegregation of busses?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This southern Minister became an important part of the civil rights movement using and preaching for the use of non-violent tactics to achieve social and political change.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the name of the organization that MLK was the president of?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Supreme Court case of Plessy v Ferguson legalized segregation across the US using this phrase
"Separate, but Equal"
The 24th Amendment outlawed states from passing discriminatory laws for voting like ____
poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses
This protest was one of the largest demonstrations to take place in the US capital and was where MLK gave his I Have a Dream speech
The March on Washington
This civil rights leader promoted the idea of Black Separatism from white society.
Malcolm X
What religious organization was Malcolm X a part of?
Nation of Islam
What was the name of the group of students that tried to integrate Central high school in Arkansas?
Little Rock 9
This executive order desegregated the US military.
Executive Order 9981
What was the protest that tested to see if the desegregation of public transportation was upheld in the south?
Freedom Rides
This man was the chairman and leader of SNCC for a time, after leaving SNCC he would later join and eventually become the prime minister of the Black Panther Party.
Stokely Carmichael
What is the organization that was founded in Chicago Illinois inspired by the strategies of Gandhi, which would later take part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Rides, and the March on Washington?
Congress Of Racial Equality
African Americans faced discrimination in housing through
zoning laws and restrictive covenants
What Amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
The 15th Amendment
What event took three attempts in order to achieve its goal for voting rights?
The Selma March
Who was the Lawyer of the NAACP that represent the Brown family in Brown v Board of education and would later become the first African American supreme court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
What organizations was made of students who advocated non-violence to achieve racial equality
SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee,
Laws that prevented miscegenation prevented from people of different races from what
marrying, having kids, having sexual relationships