Early Civil Rights Movement
What Supreme Court case overturned Segregation?
Brown vs Board of Education
Rosa Parks was the face of this Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who won the presidential election of 1960
John F. Kennedy
Who was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
MLK
What does SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
How did the U.S. government responded to the Little Rock's Central High School event during the 1950s?
Sent US Military to force integration.
After MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech, what was the response from American Government?
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law
What was built as an effect of The Berlin Crisis
The Berlin Wall
Which potential Presidential candidate was assassinated before the election
Robert F Kennedy
What does SNCC stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
What region of America was slow to integrate during the 1950's and 1960's?
The South
What was the goal of Freedom Riders?
Name this 13 day standoff between USSR and USA over "First Strike Capability" Nuclear Weapons
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Black Panthers
MLK became the face of the Civil Rights Movement and started the SCLC after what successful movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
14th Amendment, Sit In's, Non Violent Protests are examples of what organization's efforts for Civil Rights
NAACP/ Thurgood Marshall
Which movement lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
March at Selma
JFK chose to go to the moon to do what?
Win The Space Race
Why did LBJ decide not to run for President again?
Pressure from Vietnam War backlash and failure of Great Society
Literacy Tests, Poll taxes, and other disqualifying items were all banned by what
Voting Rights Act of 1965
“Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier in Major League Baseball”
“President Truman Issues Executive Order Desegregating Armed Forces”
“NAACP Challenges School Segregation”
All examples of what?
The Beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement
What event caused African American voting registration to rise, especially in Mississippi?
Freedom Summer
Who passed the Civil Rights Act?
Lyndon Johnson
Who won the Election of 1968 after the DNC was split?
Richard Nixon
Which John showed tobacco to the Jamestown colony, as a mean to make money?
John Rolfe