Civil Rights Movement
True or False: The Voting Rights Act has little impact on voter registration in the South
What is false?
Who were Jim Crow Laws mainly directed towards?
Who are African Americans?
What is NOW?
What is the National Organization for Women?
Who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up a seat in the front of the bus to a white man?
Who is Rosa Parks?
What is a form of peaceful protest in which people occupied seats in a segregated facility?
What is a sit-in?
Which group wanted to pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation in interstate bus terminals?
Who are the Freedom Riders?
What is the separation of people based on race or religion?
What is a civil rights law that gives people with disabilities equal rights and opportunities?
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Who was the first African American elementary school student to attend an all white school?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
What is the Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine?
What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
Who led the student walk out at Moton High School to protest segregated school facilities?
Who is Barbara Johns?
What organization expanded during the Civil Rights Movement and worked to help in areas of legal defense and education?
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
What act led to an increase in High School Athletic Participation for girls?
What is Title IX?
Who was a civil rights leader and minister who believed deeply in the power of nonviolent protest and fought to end segregation?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
Who was the first African American baseball player in the majors?
Who is Jackie Robinson?
What outlawed the use of Literacy Tests?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
At what event was Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech given?
What is the March on Washington?
What did the Women's Feminist Movement see as its major goal in the 1960s?
What is guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work?
Who was a former minister of the Nation of Islam preached black supremacy, was shot and killed for going soft on his pro violence stance?
Who is Malcolm X?
What amendment was never passed but wanted to provided equal opportunities for everyone?
What is the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?
What did the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court rule?
What is racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional?
What was a common tactic used by white opponents of the Civil Rights movement?
What is the bombing of churches and homes?
What act guarantees the rights of all children with disabilities to go to the same schools and be part of the same classrooms as children without disabilities?
What is IDEA (The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
Who was the group of students that were selected to go to an all-white Arkansas high school?
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
What is a form of opposition that does not cause anyone or anything direct harm while still conveying a message?
What is nonviolent protest?