History-Civil Rights Era
Laws that enforced the strict separation of the races
Jim Crow Laws
A massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
General term for a bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes
Freedom Rides
President Johnson named this group to investigate the causes of urban riots
Kerner Commission
This ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v Board of Education
Brown II
While in prison, Malcom X became a follower of this.
Nation of Islam
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson
The members of the Congress of Racial Equality believed this.
That nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans.
To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students?
Little Rock, Arkansas
This conflict at Little Rocks Central High School was a reaction to
Brown v Board of Education
He was named the first African American Supreme Court Justice in 1967.
Thurgood Marshall
This law banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This method was used by civil rights activists.
Sit ins
The first confrontations (fights, events, etc.) on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma
Bloody Sunday
University of Mississippi
What happened in hudreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
Riots broke out.
Racial Segregation by Law was called
de jure
This group developed anti-poverty programs for African Americans to help themselves and their communities
Black Panthers
Who used police dogs and fire hoses against civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama?
T. Eugene (Bull) Connor
The University of Mississippi, President Kennedy, said this in response to riots over desegregation.
Americans were free to disagree with the law but not disobey it.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a Dream" speech during this event.
March on Washington
Term for racial segregation by custom or tradition
de facto
What city is Edmund Pettus Bridge located in? This was also the location of Bloody Sunday?
Selma, Alabama
When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC said that they were
Murdered.
How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
More than a year