This court case deemed segregation legal if it was "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
100
Stated no one could be denied an equal education because of race.
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
100
The leader of the Civil Rights movement, supported non-violent protests.
What is Martin Luther King
100
When was MLK assassinated?
What is April 4, 1968
100
The more violent group of Civil Rights advocates. Used their own weapons to police neighborhoods to prevent police brutality.
What is Black Panthers
200
This type of segregation is the type that is unwritten.
What is Defacto segregation.
200
Outlawed discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964
200
Leader of the Civil Rights Movement, much more radical than MLK.
What is Malcolm X
200
Where was the first desegregated High School located at?
What is Little Rock Arkansas
200
What was JFK's stance during the Civil Rights Movement?
What is He supported their goals for equality, even stepping in and making a deal with state legislators so anti-segregation laws were enforced.
300
This person was the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice.
What is Thurgood Marshall
300
What was the 24th Amendment?
What is Banned poll taxes
300
This happened prior to Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.
What is March on Washington
300
Protestors rode from Washington D.C. to New Orleans defying segregation laws in many cities.
What is The Freedom Ride
300
The tactic in which Senators give long speeches to attempt to stop legislation.
What is Filibuster
400
This type of segregation is the kind written by law.
What is Dejure segregation
400
This act banned literacy tests when voting.
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965
400
Most famous Civil Rights protest, called Bloody Sunday when non-violent protesters were attacked during their march.
What is March on Selma
400
Where were the major riots at when the protests turned violent?
What is Los Angeles, Newark, Detroit
400
President Johnson created this organization to investigate the causes of the riots happening across the U.S.
What is Kerner Commission
500
What happened to Civil Rights after the Brown case?
What is started the process of all segregation becoming illegal.
500
Gave Congress the power to investigate violations of Civil Rights.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1957.
500
List four advancements gained by African Americans because of the Civil Rights movement.
What is desegregation, education opportunities, first African American Supreme Court Justice, employment advancement opportunities,Voting Rights.
500
What made African Americans turn to more violent forms of protest?
While Civil Rights legislation was being passed, their day to day lives were not changing hardly at all. Malcolm X and others used this frustration and violent protests began.
500
Were the goals of the Civil Rights Movement met? Why or why not?