Civil Rights Leaders
Who believed in nonviolence and gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What 1964 law banned discrimination in public places and jobs?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What case ruled school segregation unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
What group protested at Alcatraz to demand treaty enforcement?
American Indian Movement
Define “Civil Disobedience"
Peacefully breaking unjust laws to protest them
Who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat?
Rosa Parks
What law provides health insurance to seniors?
Medicare
What case said students have free speech in school?
Tinker v. Des Moines
What riot in 1969 launched the LGBTQ+ rights movement?
Stonewall Riots
Define “Precedent.”
A legal ruling that future cases must follow
Who led farmworker protests and co-founded the UFW?
Cesar Chavez
What law provides health care for low-income Americans?
Medicaid
What case established that police must inform suspects of their rights?
Miranda v. Arizona
What law laid the foundation for disability access in 1990?
Stonewall Riots
“Desegregation.”
Ending racial separation by law
What was Malcolm X’s early criticism of the Civil Rights Movement?
It was too nonviolent
What movement did Title IX support?
Women’s rights
Which case involved symbolic protest with armbands?
Tinker v. Des Moines
What was one goal of the women’s rights movement in the 1970s?
Equal pay / education equality
“Miranda Rights”?
The rights police must inform people of when arrested
Who was the NAACP lawyer in Brown v. Board and later a Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
What president launched the Great Society?
Lyndon B. Johnson
What case gave rise to the term “Miranda Rights”?
Miranda v. Arizona
What tactic did the farmworker movement use to demand better conditions?
Boycotts and strikes
Define “The Great Society.”
A set of programs to fight poverty and injustice