Important People
Supported non-violence (peaceful) protests
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
First time blacks and whites protested together and MLK's famous speech are key points of this event...
March on Washington
Gave equal rights to everyone, regardless of gender, religion, race, or ethnicity
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Name of the competition between the US and USSR to see who could get to space first? (bonus: who won?)
Space Race
Keeping the races separate
Segregation
Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, "Mother" of the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
Name of the famous speech by Martin Luther King Jr
"I have a dream speech"
Brown vs. Board of Education
Fight between the US and USSR to have the most weapons and close this void (what is the name of the void?)
Missile Gap
Date of the Civil Rights Movement and what was it?
Fight for African Americans to get equality from 1954 to 1968
Supported violent (non-peaceful) protests
Malcolm X
What were the Sit In Movements?
A group of black people sit at a white lunch counter to peacefully protest segregation
Drinks were poured on them, hot coffee, food, etc, but they remained peaceful
Eliminated Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson's attempt to help poor people through work programs for inner-city teenagers
War on Poverty
Assassination of this president in 1963 because of his attempts to unite the races in America. (bonus: where was it?)
John F. Kennedy
Wanted segregation in Alabama, didn't want any mixing of the races
Gov. George Wallace
Group of blacks and whites who rode buses across Southern state lines to protest segregation on buses. The KKK would attack the buses
Freedom Riders
Wanted equal rights for blacks to end discrimination
NAACP
Strategy used during the Cuban Missile Crisis to block the island from getting supplies
Naval quarantine
Name of the movement to be proud of being black in the 1960s
Black Power
Important female leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
SNCC (Ella Baker)
Date Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and why was he killed?
April 4th, 1968 by a man who disliked the idea of blacks and whites being equal
Group that wanted African Americans to be paid for their suffering, have arms, and be released from prison. Also had many social programs to help black children
Black Panthers
Name of Lyndon B Johnson's social programs that helped poor/disabled/old people
Great Society Programs (Medicare, youth work programs, etc.)
Leader of black pride and creator of the "black power" campaign during the Civil Rights Movement
Stokely Carmichael