people
Martin Luther King Jr.
What events caused southern department store lunch counters to become desegregated?
Sit-in's
Where did Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech take place?
Washington, D.C.
What is the term for segregation that exists by law?
De Jure Segregation
Whose rights did the Warren courts tend to strengthen>
The accused
Who said, "...ask not what your country can do for you- ask what can you do for your country?"
John F. Kennedy
Miranda Rights
What was built to bring an end to the crisis in Berlin?
The Berlin Wall
What idea did Brown v. Board of Education determine to be unconstitutional?
Separate but equal
This act banned discrimination in housing in 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
What black leader was assassinated by black extremists in 1965?
Malcolm X
Who was arrested for refusing to give up a bus seat to a white man?
Rosa Parks
Where did the Freedom Rides mostly take place?
The South
What is segregation that exists by practice and custom?
De Facto Segregation
After this conflict the Soviet Union returned home with weapons and the U.S. promised not to invade Cuba
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was the NAACP official who was assassinated in 1963?
Medgar Evers
These people tested the Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on interstate bus routes and facilities in bus terminals
Freedom Riders
What wa the main goal of the march on Washington?
The passage of the Federal Civil Rights Legislation
What term defines the military strategy was adopted during the Kennedy administration?
Flexible response
What treaty banned the explosion of nuclear devices in the atmosphere?
Limited Test Ban Treaty
What veteran, with the help of federal troops, became the first black to attend the University of Mississippi?
James Meredith
What group of Christian ministers was MLK a founder of and the first president of?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Where did the failed invasion of Cuba take place?
Bay of Pigs
What term refers to the way in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them?
Reapportionment
What government study discovered that America was divided into black and white societies?
The Kerner Commission