Civil Rights Leaders
Seamstress and NAACP member who is most known for her refusal to move from her bus seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This organization conducted the first sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
A style of protest where African American protestors sat down at segregated restaurants and refused to leave until they were served.
What is a sit-in?
Civil rights activists who rode buses through the south in the early 1960s to challenge segregation
What are freedom riders?
Segregation that exists by practice and custom.
What is de facto segregation?
Co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party who gave a speech during the Democratic National Convention.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This organization conducted voter registration drives, nonviolent resistance training classes, and citizenship classes.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
City where nine African American students were stopped by the governor of Arkansas from attending Central High.
Where is Little Rock?
Because this city was very segregated, it was the perfect place to test the power of nonviolence.
Where is Birmingham, Alabama?
This slogan was a "call for black people to define their own goals... [and] to lead their own organizations."
What is Black Power?
Civil rights lawyer who won the case, Board v. Board of Education.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Established daycares, free breakfast programs, free medical clinics, and assistance to the homeless.
Who are the Black Panthers?
The doctrine that was established in the ruling of Plessy v. Feguson?
What is "separate but equal"?
This event showed U.S. Congress and the Kennedy administration that over thousands of individuals supported Kennedy's proposed civil rights act.
What is the 1963 March on Washington?
Occurred across the nation because Black Americans dealt with economic inequality; a lack of opportunities in jobs, housing, and education; and police brutality.
What is rioting?
Argued that "whites were the cause of the black condition"
Who is Malcom X?
Two ways that the NAACP advanced the rights of African Americans
What is litigation and lobbying?
Define the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is the act that “eliminated barriers to voter registration and states that federal examiners would enroll voters who had been denied suffrage by local officials”?
Although White Americans left the cities for suburban areas, African Americans still conflicted with law enforcement. Thus, they faced extreme levels of _____
What is police brutality?
Led the bus boycott and became a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education.
What is "segregating students on the basis of race was unconstitutional because it violated the 14th amendment's equal protection clause"?
Describe the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What is the act that “prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender and gave all citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, washrooms, restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations”?
List three gains of the Civil Rights movement.
What is the end of de jure segregation? What are African Americans gaining greater pride in national identity? What are greater political gains? (Increased voter registration)