Civil Rights People
Who voted together to prevent civil rights laws from being passed in congress?
Who are the Southern Block Democrats?
Special name for a 9-0 ruling by the Court
What is unanimous?
Name for when groups are forced to separate.
What is segregation?
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
This Amendment made slavery illegal in the USA
What is the 13th Amendment
President Eisenhower sent the 101st Air Borne to escort African American students integrating Little Rock High School after which governor failed to secure their safety?
Who is Governor Orval Faubus.
She refused to give up her seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The ruling in the Plessy V Ferguson case enabled what laws to be passed in the south to continue to oppress African American?
What are Jim Crow Laws.
What is it called to be brought together?
What is integration / desegregation?
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Bus Boycott
Amendment that states voting cannot be denied based on race
15th Amendment
Killed in Memphis by a white assassin.
MLK
Manicure for the nine Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock.
Who are the Little Rock 9?
The "separate but equal" case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Many southerners worked to maintain the '_____ _____' of a segregated society?
What is the status quo.
People who rode integrated buses through the South to test the federal response to segregation.
Freedom Riders
This Civil Rights Act was passed to end all segregation-YEAR?
1964
Killed by former colleagues at the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Found inspiration for peace from Gandhi & Henry David Throeau
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
Separate is inherently unequal according to this cases's decision.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
Promoted by Ghandi, King and others--The belief that it can be justified to break unfair laws is known as "Civil ________"
What is "disobedience"?
Which amendment defines U.S. citizens, and affords the equal protection under the law?
What is the 14th Amendment.
Event credited with persuading lawmakers to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964
March on Washington
Which governor symbolically stood in front of the University of Alabama to prevent African American students from entering?
Who is Governor George Wallace.
Demanded civil rights...by any means necessary.
Who is Malcom X?
NAACP lawyer, argued Brown v Board of Education, went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Group from Oakland, California that formed to provide armed protection for blacks during civil rights rallies.
What were the Black Panthers?
What is the Nation of Islam?
Signer of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
President LBJ
Attorney General, NY Senator, Democratic nominee for president, and presidential brother, assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
RFK