black panther party
These two people founded the BPP in 1966 in Oakland, California.
Who are Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South following reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
She was the first chairwoman of the BPP.
Who is Elaine Brown?
Rosa Parks started this first large scale movement that brought nationwide attention to the civil rights struggle.
What is the montgomery bus boycott?
This group founded in 1909 was dedicated to Black liberation through legislation and test cases.
What is the NAACP?
This point of the Ten-Point Program calls for education that teaches true history and self-knowledge.
What is the 5th point?
Although this was currently overturned, it was previously held up by Regents of the University of California V Bakke (1973).
What is Affirmative Action?
This BPP member wrote "Soul on Ice". He served as minister of information.
Who is Eldridge Cleaver?
This term popularized by MLK was used to describe freedom summer (an act led by the SNCC to up voter registration of African Americans in Mississippi).
What is Beloved Community?
This civil rights organization was founded in 1905 following a meeting in upstate New York.
What is the Niagara Movement?
This point of the ten-point program calls for freedom and self-determination for the black community.
What is the 1st point?
This reconstruction amendment prohibits the denial of a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th amendment?
This individual was lynched in 1955. His murder contributed to the rise of the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This protest action involved multiracial groups who intended to travel by bus from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans. They clashed with law enforcement and the KKK on the way.
What are the Freedom Rides?
This black nationalist group was founded in 1930 by Wallace Ford Muhammed and focused on issues pertaining to the African diaspora.
What is the Nation of Islam (NOI)?
This point of the ten-point program references the Holocaust and demands for forty acres and two mules.
What is the 3rd point?
This act is known as the Voting protection act and it gave the right to prosecute anyone who stood in the way of someone else voting. It was passed under president Eisenhower.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
After taking over as President of SNCC after John Lewis, this leader participated in the March against Fear in 1966, when he was arrested for the 27th time and helped popularize the slogan "Black Power".
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This peaceful rally was on August 28th of 1963 and was a factor in the passage of the civil rights act of 1964. 200,000 to 300,00 people participated
What is the March on Washington?
This group was founded in the days following Rosa Park's arrest in order to oversee the montgomery bus boycott.
What is the montgomery improvement association (MIA)?
This point of the Ten-Point Program claims that black men should be exempt from military service.
What is the 6th point?
This act passed under Truman integrated the armed and federal workforces.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1948?
This leader founded the UNIA, and advocated for Pan Africanism, the uniting of African peoples from around the world under a shared identity.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This 54-mile march took place in 1965 in order to advocate for voter registration. It was prompted by the events on Bloody Sunday.
What is the Selma to Montgomery march?
This group led the grass roots protest against white-only lunch counters at the Woolworth Sit-ins. They were dedicated to non-violence grounded in direct action.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?