Protests
Laws and Actions
Segregation
Voting Rights
Vocabulary
100
This protest pictured here:
What is a "sit-in"?
100
President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne and nationalized the national guard
What is Little Rock?
100
1896 Supreme Court case establishing "Separate but Equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
AMENDMENT: The right to vote shall not be restricted based on race
What is the 15th Amendment?
100
A peaceful protest in which people refuse to buy or use certain goods
What is a boycott?
200
Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat led to what year long protest where African American patrons refused to use the bus service.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
200
This outlawed poll taxes
What is the 24th Amendment
200
Students integrating Central High School in Arkansas
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
200
This involved making people pass a test in order vote and was a way to restrict voting by African Americans
What are literacy tests?
200
Vocabulary Word: To deny voting rights
What is disenfranchise?
300
This march included Dr. King's famous "I have a dream" speech
What is the March on Washington?
300
This law was a groundbreaking civil right law regarding segregation in public places
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
This Supreme Court case overturned "separate but equal" in schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
This involved making people pay to vote
What are poll taxes?
300
Segregation by law
What is De Jure Segregation?
400
This involved young men and women riding buses into the South to encourage the enforcement of interstate bus integration
What are the Freedom Rides?
400
This law outlawed the use of literacy tests to vote
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
Supreme Court decision after desegregation ruling where the court ordered the dismantling of separate school systems with "all deliberate speed"
What is Brown II?
400
This march mainly involved voting rights
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
400
Segregation by custom/tradition
What is De Facto Segregation?
500
Massive campaign to end segregation - The plan included overwhelming police and city officials with a high number of protests. In this campaign, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested. Tactics used against the protesters included police dogs and water hoses.
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
500
This involved sending thousands of college students to Mississippi to register African Americans to vote
What is Freedom Summer?
500
James Meredith was the first African American to attend which university?
What is the University of Mississippi?
500
What are efforts to restrict African American voting?
500
This involves breaking the law to protest unfair to protest unfair or discriminatory laws
What is Civil Disobedience?