The policy of racial separation in public facilities instituted by the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision in 1898.
What is segregation
100
Leader of the Civil Rights movement for African Americans, he espoused a philosophy of noviolence.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change.
What is nonviolence
100
Founder of the United Farm Workers and insistent on nonviolence in his organization of immigrant farm laborers.
Who is Cesar Chavez
100
Author of The Feminine Mystique (1963) and leading founder of the women’s organization NOW in 1966.
Who is Betty Friedan
200
1954 Supreme Court decision that found that “separate was inherently unequal,” thereby overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
200
Self‐proclaimed radical of Civil Rights movement for African Americans who called for the “ballot or the bullet”
Who is Malcolm X
200
A refusal to buy products used as a form of protest in Montgomery, Alabama during the Civil Rights movement and by Market Basket faithful this past summer.
What is boycott
200
Latino American Civil Rights leader who founded the Brown Beret organization and spearheaded the L.A. walkouts for better schooling.
Who is David Sanchez
200
Founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan and other feminists, it pushed for day care centers, nondiscrimination in the workplace, and abortion rights.
What is NOW
300
1898 Supreme Court decision that found that “separate was equal,” thereby instituting racial segregation across the South for the early 20th century.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
300
Name of Malcolm X’s speech in which he said, “we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression”
What is "Ballot or the Bullet"
300
March led by Martin Luther King in the fight for suffrage culminating in President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is Selma
300
Leader of the movement for disability rights who was inspired by Martin Luther King and pioneered the concept of a “liberated community”
Who is Wade Blank
300
Would guarantee equal rights for women, introduced in 1923 but not passed by Congress until 1972; it failed to be ratified by the states.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment
400
A group of Black and White progressives who boarded public busses together to test a federal court ruling that banned segregation on buses and trains. Resulted in assaults by Alabama mobs and drew national attention to the civil rights cause.
What is "Freedom Riders"
400
Alabama city in which the police commissioner responded to MLK’s nonviolent demonstrations with attack dogs, tear gas, electric cattle prods, and fire houses while millions watched on television.
What is Birmingham
400
Four black college students demanded service at a “whites only” lunch counter in 1960; it started a movement which quickly spread throughout the country. What was this form of protest called?
What is sit-in
400
A militant Indian group founded in 1963, its leaders aimed to promote “red power” through protests and armed seizure of land, for instance the Wounded Knee standoff in 1973.
What is AIM
400
1973 Supreme Court decision requiring states to permit first‐trimester abortions.
What is Roe vs. Wade
500
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice from 1953‐1969 whose court decided landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
500
A Southern traditionalist and Governor of Alabama who remained steadfast in opposing integration (depicted in the film Selma)
Who is George Wallace
500
Civil rights demonstration on August 28, 1963 where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
What is March on Washington
500
Name of an Asian American Civil Rights group in favor of a revolutionary Marxist struggle for equal rights.
What is I Wor Kuen
500
She was a religious and political conservative who opposed feminism and helped launch a Stop-ERA movement