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This Southern-based, white supremacist organization, founded in the 1860s, sought to terrorize and intimidate African Americans and those who supported civil rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This term describes the legal and social system that enforced racial discrimination, particularly in the Southern United States.
What is segregation?
African American activist and poet, this woman became an iconic figure in the civil rights movement after her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This U.S. Supreme Court case in 1896 upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This journalist and anti-lynching activist, launched a campaign against the widespread practice of lynching in the late 19th century.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This 1954 landmark Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Civil Rights Act was signed by which President?
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
The Chicago Defender became famous for its role in promoting this important migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
This minstrel character, first performed in the 1830s, is the origin of the term "Jim Crow," which later became associated with racial segregation laws.
Who is Thomas Dartmouth "DADDY" Rice?
The _________ was a severe economic downturn that lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic disaster in the history of the industrialized world.
What is the Great Depression?