Civil Rights and Education
Supreme Court case that laid the foundation for "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Laws in the South that were meant to disenfranchise African Americans
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Speech MLK gave during the March on Washington
What is the "I Have A Dream" speech?
Civil rights leader who believed in non-violent protesting and was assassinated in 1968
Who is MLK?
Woman who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
Supreme court case that ruled segregation in schools as unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Three Reconstruction Amendments passed to protect African Americans
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Protest organized by college students in Greensboro, North Carolina that led to the creation of SNCC
What are the Lunch-Counter Sit-Ins?
Organization that used non-violence and was dedicated to strengthening local communities? (HINT: created after lunch counter sit-ins)
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
Goal of Freedom Summer
What is to carry out the voter education program? (register voters and educate people about voting)
Head NAACP lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" is constitutional
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Boycott that was started after an African American woman refused to give up her seat and was arrested
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Organization that used the court system to challenge inequalities for African Americans in the US
What is the NAACP?
Event where 3 CORE volunteers went missing during Freedom Summer
What is Mississippi burning?
Nine African Americans who tested the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in Arkansas to see if the federal gov would enforce the ruling
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Legislation that was passed to ensure the 15th amendment was protected
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Meant to challenge segregation on interstate buses
What are the Freedom Rides?
Organization created by Huey P. Newton that believed in armed resistance
What is the Black Panthers?
Goals of the SCLC
What is to support southern African American communities through the church system?
President who sent in troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into school
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Banned discrimination in the workplace
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Impacts of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
What are:
increased diversity in the workplace
ended barriers to voting for African Americans
the US eventually became more inclusive
Major difference between Malcolm X and MLK
What is non-violent vs armed resistance?
What was the name of the commissioner of safety for Birmingham ,Alabama?
Who is Bull Connor.