Organizations
How did the NAACP fight segregation?
Through Court cases
This civil rights leader advocated for Black Power, Black Nationalism and economic self sufficiency
Malcolm X
Freedom Riders wanted to desegregate what industry
Busing
Which Supreme Court case overturned segregation in schools?
Brown v Board of Education (Topeka Kansas)
This program was designed to force schools and jobs to accept a certain number of minority applicants
Affirmative Action
This rights group started the Sit In movement
CORE
Martin Luther King Jr's first successful civil rights protest was?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dr King next focused on this city because of its reputation, repeated bombings by the KKK
Birmingham
Southerners wanted to slow passage of the Civil Rights act so used this strategy in Congress
Filibuster
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed what?
NAACP's top lawyer who later argued Brown v Board and became the first African American supreme court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Which president sent troops to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce desegregation of the states schools?
Eisenhower
The March on Washington was meant to accomplish support for what?
Civil Rights Act 1964
When this governor stood blocking African American students from entering a college, Kennedy went on TV to announce his Civil Rights bill
George Wallace
Which Act ended the use of literacy tests?
Voting Rights Act
This movement gained support after people grew frustrated with Dr King's apparent lack of success
Black Power movement
Dr King's focus began to shift after the Voting Rights act to focus on what?
Poor People's Campaign, economic inequality, housing inequality
This was the start of Dr King's march on Montgomery, chosen because of its large voting differences between blacks and whites
Selma
Plessy v Ferguson led to this
Separate but Equal
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 primarily focused on what rights?
Voting Rights
This was the name of Dr King's organization he led through the Montgomery Bus Boycotts
SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This Southern senator promised "Massive Resistance" to attempts to desegregate the south
Harry Byrd
This was the organization that assassinated Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
As opposed to De Jure Segregation, This is the type of segregation that is still around to this day
De Facto
This act was passed in response to Dr Kings assassination
Fair Housing Act 1968