Socially accepted practices such as Jim Crow Laws are known as
What is Defacto Segregation
100
This civil rights leader helped the Selma to Montgomery March and the march on Washington where he delivered I have a dream
What is MLK
100
Group responsible for challenging the policies in the south concerning interstate travel resulting in burned busses and numerous arrests also the changing in the laws concerning segregated bus travel
What is Freedom Riders
100
Act prohibiting the discrimination of voters also the most effective piece of legislation concerning civil rights
What is voters rights act of 1965
100
The event between the US Navy and a North Vietnamese patrol ship resulted in what action granting the president unlimited powers to ensure safety for out troops
What is Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
200
The supreme court case allowing separate but equal facilities was known as
What is Plessy Vs Ferguson
200
This person actually pushed civil rights legislation through and got the civil rights act of 1964 passed
What is Lyndon Johnson
200
The only civil rights organization who allowed anyone to join their cause
What is CORE
200
What President actually pushed the civil rights act of 1964 into legislation
What is Johnson
200
The north Vietnamese communist leader was
What is Ho Chi Minh
300
The civil rights lawyer who also was the first African American Supreme court justice was
What is Thurgood Marshall
300
The creator of the New Frontier program also had a part in begining the civil right s movement in America
What is JFK
300
The oldest of the civil rights groups, MLK and Rosa Parks worked for this group as well
What is NAACP
300
The president who was our only president to resign and also at the top of Watergate was
What is Richard Nixon
300
In 1968 the tide of the war was changed and America felt it was in danger of losing the war because of what event
What is The TET Offensive
400
What was the supreme court case which overturned plessy vs Ferguson?
What is Brown Vs Board of education
400
Author of the Bullet or the Ballot speech who believed in not turning the other cheak
What is Malcom X
400
Name for the actions by northern students traveling to Mississippi to register African American voters. 3 of these supporters were murdered as well
What is Freedom Summer
400
Lyndon Johnson created created a program to help fight poverty and lead America into prosperity but led America into the welfare state we see today
What is The Great Society
400
In May of 1968 Lt William Calley led a group of soldiers against unarmed civilian's killing over 500 men women and children later calley is sentenced to 3.5 years for the war crime the incident is known as
What is My Lai
500
What event took place by the African American community after the arrest of Rosa Parks for not moving her seat to allow a white man to sit down on a bus
What is Montgomery Bus Boycott
500
challenger of the policies of Old Miss University WWII Veteran and the first African American to attend Old Miss University
What is James Meridith
500
organization which began as a non violent group following MLK who later followed the teaching of Malcom X and became miltant
What is Malcom X
500
Members of the Republican regime under Nixon were involved in illegal wiretapping and were caught during a bad attempt at a break in at the Democratic National Headquarters this became known as
What is Watergate
500
The practice of pulling American troops out of Vietnam while sending more equipment and money into Vietnam by President Nixon was known as