The Civil Rights Era
True or False: The Civil Rights movement was before World War 2.
False
What major U.S. Supreme Court Case ruled in 1954 that "seperate but equal" schools were unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
The first African American Woman in the USA to establish a bank and become a bank president.
Worked toward getting the women's right to vote
Maggie L. Walker
An educator and university leader
Promoted equal education opportunities for African Americans
Robert Russa Moton
Civil Rights Movement
A time when people worked together to try to gain equal civil rights for African Americans.
List three activities African Americans and others led during the Civil Rights Era?
What did the Virginia state government do when they did not agree with desegregation?
The state government established a policy of Massive Resistance
a high school student who organized a student walk out at her Virginia high school to protest the poor conditions
Barbara Johns
A lawyer and civil rights leader
Organized a sit-in at a Virginia Public Library
Played a key role in many court cases related to discrimination, segregation, and the desegregation of Virginia's public schools.
Samuel Wilber Tucker
Segregation
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion
What was the name of the laws passed by the southern states during Reconstruction to legally establish segregation?
Jim Crow Laws.
Was Massive Resistance Successful?
No
A lawyer and civil rights leader
Worked for equal rights of African Americans
Played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Oliver W. Hill, Sr.
Was arrested when she refused to give up her sear on a bus to white passengers
Led to a Supreme Court case that ruled a Virginia law requiring racial segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional.
Irene Morgan
Unfair difference in treatment based on their race
1950s-1960s
What action led to the court case Brown v. Board of Education?
A student strike against segregation led by Barbara Johns in Virginia.
the first African American winner of a major men's tennis singles championship
a writer who worked toward social change
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.
A governor of Virginia
Promoted racial equality appointing more African Americans and women to positions in Virginia state government than previous governors had.
A. Linwood Holton, Jr.
What was "Massive Resistance" in Virginia?
A. A movement by African Americans to protest unfair voting laws
B. A policy by Virginia's government to resist the desegregation of public schools
C. A large protest march held in Washington, D.C.
D. A plan to build more schools for African American students
B. A policy by Virginia's government to resist the desegregation of public schools.
What were the three goals of the Civil Rights Movement?
Improve economic opportunities
Establish voting rights
End legal discrimination and segregation
What did schools look like before Brown V. Board of Education. What did schools look like after?
Schools before were segregated and black and white students had separate bathrooms, water fountains, classes, etc.
Schools after were desegregated and students of all races could receive equal education together.
A governor of Virginia
The first African American to be elected a state governor in the United States
L. Douglas Wilder
An American Civil Rights Activist who was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Hint: (Not a Virginian)
Martin Luther King Jr.
The legal end of segregation
Desegregation