Civil Rights Movement 1
Ending racial segregation and securing equal rights for all Americans was the goal of this movement.
Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr supported this type of movement because he believed it would convince the public of the righteousness of the movement's goals.
Nonviolent Movement
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during
What did Amendment XIII do?
Ended Slavery
President assassinated during the Civil Rights Movement
JFK
Fear from being harassed by police or fired from their jobs kept African Americans from speaking out against what?
Segregation.
This was a common tactic used to desegregate lunch counters.
Sit-ins.
This president persuaded Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Lyndon B. Johnson
What did Amendment XIV do?
Established citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. or naturalized.
The Supreme Court Case that ruled that segregation was legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat to a white man on a segregated bus started what?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
President Eisenhower did this when trying to protect the first black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
Sent in Federal Troops
Which Civil Rights leader was associated with the Nation of Islam?
Malcolm X
Ella Baker
The Attorney General for JFK
RFK
This famous court case declared that school segregation was illegal.
Brown vs the Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr did this when he was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama.
Wrote a letter explaining the goals of the Civil Rights Movement.
This group embraced the use of violence to reach equality for African Americans.
Black Panther Party
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The first African American to attend Ole Miss
James Meredith
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What was Freedom Summer?
An effort to get African Americans in Mississippi to register to vote.
During the Montgomery bus boycott, this famous individual emerged as an important leader of the Civil Rights movement.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The first African American Supreme Court Justice was
Thurgood Marshall
Malcom X was killed by members of
The Nation of Islam
The governor of Alabama who openly defied efforts to end segregation
George Wallace
Which organization of the Civil Rights Movement accomplished gains in the courtroom?
NAACP