Civil
Rights
In The
US
100
Segregation based on practice or custom
What is de facto segregation?
100
Supreme Court case leading to the desegregation of schools.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
100
Led to the creation of the Kerner Commision
What are race riots in Watts and other urban ghettos?
100
Banned discrimination in housing
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968
200
Segregation based on law
What is de jure segregation?
200
Tactic used by Martin Luther King to fight segregation
What is non-violent resistance?
200
Required federal oversight of voter registration in the South
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
200
Responsible for the occupation of Alcatraz Island, The Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Longest Walk
What is the Red Power Movement?
300
An agreement among neighbors not to sell or rent to minorities
What is a restrictive covenant?
300
Led to city leaders desegregating public facilities.
What are the Birmingham protests?
300
Joined Islam rejected non-violent resistance converted to orthodox Islam
Who is Malcom X?
300
Led to the increased enrollment of minorities in college
What is affirmative action?
400
Tactics used to prevent African Americans from voting
What are poll taxes, gerrymandering, white primaries?
400
Outlawed discrimination in employment, schools, and public facilities
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
Sent observers into the streets armed with law books and shotguns to protect protesters from police
Who are the Black Panthers?
400
Failed to be ratified by the states after being passed by congress in 1972
What is Equal Rights Amendment?
500
Harry Truman's order that desegregated the military
What is Executive order 9981?
500
Summer dedicated to increasing voter participation among African Americans
What is Freedom Summer?
500
Main goal was to acquire reparations for Japanese Americans interned during WWII.
What is the Japanese American Citizens League?
500
Helped found the United Farm Workers Organized a national boycott of grapes Used hunger strikes to draw attention to the plight of migrant workers
Who is Cesar Chavez?
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