Places
Little Rock 9 integrated a high school in what state?
Arkansas
Martin Luther King founded the _____________ which was one of the largest civil rights groups
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Name one youth (10-18 year old) face of the civil rights movement
Minnijean Brown, Claudette Colvin, Emmett Till, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls
Put these cases in order: Hedgepath & Williams vs Trenton BOE, Brown vs Board, Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy, Hedgepath, Brown
Which idea relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education?
Separate but Equal
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
___________ kicked all whites out of the group once they become radical, but initially were known for being a strong interracial group
CORE (congress of racial equality
What two civil rights advancements were monumental under the Johnson administration?
Civil Rights Act 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
What did the Supreme Court focus on when deciding the Brown vs Board case?
Could schools really be equal if they are segregated based on race
What was the purpose of the Clark Doll Study?
Assess the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children
Segregation in the North was known as
De Facto Segregation
What does NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Who started a bus protest before Rosa Parks? Why was she not the forefront of the movement?
Claudette Colvin; not the right look (darker skin, younger, youth activist chapter of NAACP, unmarried, pregnant)
What did the Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968) case have to do with?
housing/rental segregation
What did the civil rights act of 1964 make segregation illegal in?
Public Spaces
Segregation in the South was known as
De Jure Segregation
What two groups organized the freedom rides
CORE and SNCC
Why was the Warren Court significant?
Made a unanimous decision in the brown vs board case.
Expanded civil rights and liberties for diverse groups of Americans, through rulings in cases like Brown, Loving, and Jones.
What was unfair about Emmet Tills trial (2 things)?
All white male jury, from hometown of the accused murders
Two examples of de facto segregation
Denied housing in neighborhoods & discrimination in jobs
MLK's first leadership role was leading the....
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Malcolm X joined the ___________________ and these values inspired the __________________
Nation of Islam; Black Panther Party
What was Malcolm X's birth name? Why did he change it?
Little; shed identity of former slaveholders
Explain the case of Loving vs. Virginia, and the outcome
Two examples of de jure segregation
Legally segregated schools, laws against interracial marriage, laws against hiring other races/ethnicities.