Martin Luther King Jr
When did Martin Luther King jr die?
April 4th, 1968
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
A goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African American.
What was the Cold War?
The open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
Who assassinated Martin Luther King?
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray, career criminal and racist.
What is the Jim Crow Law?
Jim Crow Laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.
The Cold War was between what 2 superpowers?
The United States and the Soviet Union
What terrorist group targeted African American and denied their equal rights as citizens?
Ku Klux Klan
What was the name of the organization Martin Luther Jr was leading in 1957?
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC
meant to return Southern states to an antebellum class structure by marginalizing Black Americans
Jim Crow Laws
What was the Space Race?
a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the US and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in spaceflight.
Who delivered the speech "I Had A Dream"?
Martin Luther King Jr
When did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous speech “I have a dream …”?
On August 28,1963, when Luther organised a march to Washington to show the importance of solving the nation's racial problems.
The male group that broke the racial barrier to become the first black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Tuskegee Airmen
What are the 2 major Proxy Wars the United States fought?
The Korean War and Vietnam War
What was the name of the Muslim black leader who encouraged black Americans to use violence?
Which was the first major civil rights action that Martin Luther King Jr led?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Opened national defense jobs and other government jobs to all Americans regardless of race, creed, color or national origin.
Civil Rights Act in 1964
The Cold War occurs right after what event?
The end of World War II
What United State president signed the civil rights act in 1964?
Lyndon Johnson