Jim Crow laws
The laws that were put in place to keep black people insulated from whites, economically inferior, and political powerless.
What is Jim Crows Laws?
This Civil rights leader delivered his famous “I have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This Supreme Court Case in 1954 declared segregation in public school unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?l
What group did Martin Luther King formed in 1967 to mobilize black churches on behalf of black rights?
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This act ended the Civil Right Movement.
What is the Voting Act of 1965?
This landmark civil rights law, passed in 1965, aimed to eliminate racial discrimination in voting practices, particularly in the Southern states, by prohibiting literacy tests and other restrictive measures.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This Civil Right leader refused to give her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Park?
This 1965 protest march from Selma to Montgomery was organized to demand voting rights and was met with violent opposition, leading to national outrage and the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act.
What is the Selma to Montgomery march?
This organization, founded in 1942 by James Farmer and others, organized nonviolent protests against segregation and discrimination, including the Freedom Rides.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
This legislation, signed into law in 1968, aimed to prevent discrimination in housing and employment, marking a significant milestone in the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?
The group of white supremacist fought back against blacks and their new freedoms by terrorizing them and their goal was to take down the republican party and achieve white supremacy.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
In 1948, this U.S. president signed an executive order desegregating the armed forces, marking a significant step in the fight for civil rights.
Who is Harry Truman?
Where was segregation wanted the most?
The south.
This was the group that aimed to fanned out to end segregation in facilities serving bus passengers.
Who were the Groups of Freedom Riders?
This landmark legislation that was signed into law in 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers preventing African Americans from exercising their right to vote?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
This Supreme Court case upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing racial segregation in public facilities as long as they were deemed equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
President who appealed to the Civil rights movement but moved slowly on civil rights because he needed the support of Southerners in Congress for the New Frontier.
Who is President Kennedy?
This young African American boy’s tragic death in 1955 sparked national outrage and became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till.
This group of people, whose goal was to fight against Jim Crow laws in the court of law.
What is NAACP?
What laws ended the Jim Crow Laws completely?
The Civil Rights Act, Voting Act, and the Fair Housing Act all ended this.
The Civil Rights Act, Voting Act, and the Fair Housing Act all ended this.
This was the civil rights leader believed "By Any Means Necessary."
who was Malcolm X?
This organization, founded in 1909, played a key role in fighting segregation and promoting equal rights through legal action, including their involvement in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
What is the NAACP.
This organization, founded in 1960 by student activists, focused on nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to combat racial segregation and injustice, and was instrumental in the sit-in movement.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
9 teenagers who were the first African American students to desegregate a High School in Arkansas
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
Over 250,000 people joined together in a march to get congress's attention about civil rights.
What was the March on Washington in 1963?