The Doctrine established by the 1896 Supreme Court case that permitted laws segregating African Americans as long as equal facilities were provided.
What is Seperate-but-equal?
100
Members of this group staged sit-ins which successfully integrated many resturants, theaters, and other public facilities.
What is CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)?
100
This committee's purpose was to stop the federal bureaucracy from discriminating against African Americans when hiring and promoting people.
What is the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity?
100
To gain posession of something.
What is attain?
100
She organized a convention at Shaw University and urged students to create the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Who is Ella Baker?
200
An attempt to kill a bill by having a group of senators take turns speaking continuously so that a vote cannot take place.
What is a filibuster?
200
This party was given new strength by African Americans who benefited from FDR's New Deal programs.
What is the Democratic Party?
200
Dr. King lead a demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama in order to get this president to actively support civil rights.
Who is President Kennedy?
200
To be characteristic of something by nature or habit.
What is inherent?
200
He tried to register at the University of Mississippi but was turned back by the governor of the state.
Who is James Meredith?
300
A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote.
What is poll tax?
300
This doctrine permitted laws segregating African Americans as long as equal facilities were provided for them.
What is the "Seperate but Equal" doctrine?
300
This is how students participating in sit-ins reacted when heckled, punched, kicked and beaten with clubs.
What is non-violently/did not fight back/remained peaceful?
300
Relating to one's mental perception.
What is psychological?
300
This president believed that people had to allow segregation and racism to end gradually, as people's values changed.
Who was President Eisenhower?
400
A form of protest involving occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment.
What is a sit-in?
400
These laws created an elaboarte set of requirements other than race that schools could use to prevent African Americans from attending white schools.
What are the Pupil Assignment Laws?
400
Teams of African Americans and whites who travelled into the South with the intention of drawing attention to the South's refusal to integrate bus terminals.
Who/What were the Freedom Riders?
400
A requirement to follow a specific law.
What is legality?
400
He believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through non-violent passive resistance.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
500
Segregation by custom and tradition.
What is de facto segregation?
500
This Act of 1957 marked an important first step in bringing the power of the federal government into the civil rights debate.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
500
This march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery ended in a brutal attack on protesters, later known as "Bloody Sunday."
What is the "march for freedom?"
500
To cover a broad range of topics.
What is comprehensive?
500
This young girl's parents sued the Topeka school board, which led to the case of Brown v. Board of Education.