Beginnings
This agreement ended Reconstruction and started the Jim Crow Era?
What was the Compromise of 1877?
His murder and open casket funeral is considered the spark of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Emmet Till?
Refusing to integrating schools and closing public schools were part of this effort by southern white municipalities to fight the Brown decision.
What is massive resistance?
This ended Jim Crow and created the Equal Employment Commission.
What was the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
This organization, whose most well known member was Malcolm X, believed that change was coming too slow and rejected Dr King's use of Civil Disobedience
What was the Nation of Islam?
This case upheld segregation laws throughout the nation?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, begun by Rosa Parks, caused this man to become a household name by the end of the decade.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
White families leaving the cities and moving to the suburbs to get around integration.
What is "white flight"?
The 1964 Civil Rights Act may not have been passed without the success of this event?
What was the March on Washington?
Who were sanitation workers?
Literacy Tests, poll taxes and lynchings were used to stop African Americans from doing this.
This NAACP lawyer was responsible for winning the Brown v. Board of Education case, that began the overturning of the Plessy case.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Trying to integrate restaurants.
What were the "Sit-ins"?
This was a protest movement that worked to get African Americans in the south the right to vote.
What was Freedom Summer?
This region of Los Angeles exploding into a riot, due to prolong police brutality and poverty.
What was Watts?
Ida Well and WEB DuBois, to name a few, co-founded this organization whose legal arm was used to fight to end segregation.
Dwight D Eisenhower sends federal troops into Arkansas to make these kids go to an integrated school.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
Trying to integrate bus terminals.
What were the Freedom Rides?
This did away with Poll Taxes.
What was the 24th Amendment?
This report blamed the Watts riot on systemic racism and poverty of the African American community.
What was the Kerner Commission?
This organization, which had a large number of college students who were a little bit more confrontational, challenged segregation at restaurants and bus terminols.
The Southern Manifesto - Over 100 members of this body disagreed with the Supreme Court's Brown's decision.
Who were members of Congress?
This violence that came from this protest was used to get the Kennedy Administration to agree to a March on Washington.
What was the Birmingham Protest?
Is not for the brutal attack here, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, that ended literacy tests, may never have happened.
What was the Selma March?
Busing was used to try to fight this type of segregation (thanks white flight).
What was de facto segregation?