Organizations & People
Conducted a study where they discriminated against people with Blue eyes to demonstrate how "easy it is to be taught to hate".
Who is Jane Elliot?
This early 20th-century movement aimed to “improve” the human race through selective breeding and sterilization programs.
What is eugenics?
This case led to the destruction of Korea Town during the LA 92 riots.
Latasha Harlins/ Rodney King
This group created community programs and emphasized the idea of "all power to all people" but were seen as the " greatest threat to the internal security of the country"
Who is the Black Panther Party?
Incident where federal troops were sent in to protect the lives of black children integrating school. This was the first time since reconstruction.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
This person emphasized the idea of "token integration" and highly criticized the idea of "civil rights".
Who is Malcolm X?
This event sparked sit-ins in 55 different cities in the US.
What is the Greensboro Four, North Carolina ?
This law outlawed discriminations in public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This bill ends forced sterilizations in California in prisons.
SB 1135 ( 2014) Gov. Jerry Brown
This case of retaliation, targeted a significant meeting place for organizers and claimed the life of 4 young girls.
What is the 16th Street Church Bombing?
Organized the Journey of Reconciliation but did not have much success.
CORE
This event led to the establishment of Ethnic Studies.
TWLF Strike
This law/Act was passed in 1967 in an effort to stop the Black Panther Party's armed patrolling.
What is the Mulford Act?
This event highlights the frustrations by black community after a 15 year old was shot and killed by an off duty police officer.
What is the Harlem Riot?
This event brought national shock and support to voting rights after seeing many protestors getting attacked with tear gas & beat for refusing to retreat from a planned march.
What is Bloody Sunday/Selma-to- Montgomery March?
This person demonstrated extreme opposition to civil rights protestors by pouring hydrochloric acid into a pool with demonstrators.
Who is James Brock/ Monson Motor Lodge.
This was an attempt to increase the voter population in Mississippi, involved bringing in Northern college students to register black voters and teach literacy.
What was Freedom Summer?
This law was passed in response to redlining, racial covenants, and racial steering.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968/ Fair Housing Act
In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” King outlined four steps of nonviolent direct action. Name two of them.
What are collection of the facts, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action?
Which government agency was primarily responsible for surveilling and retaliating against civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Hampton, and organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Who is COINTELPRO/FBI
This person was portrayed as a "traitor" to their race for participating in civil rights and was used to shift blame away from the FBI.
Who is Viola Liuzzo ?
This individual was the first to challenge the constitutionally of Californians Eugenic sterilization practices after her 19yr old daughter was recommended for sterilization.
What is Sara Rosas Garcia & Andrea Garcia.
What form of retaliation was often used against Black voters in the South during the era of Jim Crow laws?
What law overturned this?
Literacy tests & violence
Civil Rights Act of 1965
This U.S. Supreme Court case of 1927 upheld forced sterilization laws, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declaring, “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
What is Buck v.Bell?