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100
Name the group that was INTERRACIAL and is the oldest civil rights group. Their focus was on change using COURT CASES.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
100
Name the organized demonstration in which protesters refused to leave a business. This non-violent protest became common during the civil rights era of the 1960s.
SIT-INS
100
Major Civil Rights Law signed by President Lyndon Johnson that prohibited discrimination (unfair treatment) in all public areas and with jobs and housing.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT of 1964
100
African American author who wrote "Notes of a Native Son." A book about the damaging effects of SEGREGATION on the minorities as well as the majority.
JAMES BALDWIN
100
Name John Kennedy's plan for government. It included plans to address poverty and a space race with the Soviet Union
NEW FRONTIER
200
Name the civil rights group started by Martin Luther King Jr. that used non-violent protests. The group was located in the southern United States and participated in the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott.
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
200
Name the largest civil right demonstration. Martin Luther King Jr. presented his "I Have A Dream" speech in front of 200,000 people.
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
200
Law signed by President Johnson to have the federal government go to places that had low voter registrations (southern states) and sign up minority voters
VOTING RIGHTS ACT of 1965
200
Founder and one time leader of the Nation of Islam. He was assassinated by former colleagues in New York, 1965
MALCOLM X
200
Name Lyndon Johnson's plan for government. It included a "war on poverty", a civil rights law and more money foe education.
GREAT SOCIETY
300
Name the civil rights group lead by James Farmer. They used "peaceful confrontations" like sit-ins or public marches. The group was started in 1942.
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
300
Traveling groups through southern states stopping to protest at segregated bus depots. At times, protestors were attacked and buses were burned.
FREEDOM RIDES
300
SEGREGATION found in southern states where LAWS were passed to separate groups (exa. separate restrooms) by law
DE JURE SEGREGATION
300
Martin Luther King Jr. based his NON-VIOLENT techniques on the example of this independence from Britain leader in INDIA.
MOHATMA GANDHI
300
Name the group that investigated the Kennedy Assassination.
WARREN COMMISSION (led by Chief Justice Earl Warren)
400
Name the mainly African American college student group started in the 1960s. They were once part of the SCLC and were willing to be arrested during civil rights protests
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
400
Name the series of protests in GEORGIA led by Martin Luther King Jr. The protests were non-violent and did not create much newspaper or television coverage.
ALBANY (GEORGIA) MOVEMENT
400
Segregation found in NORTHERN cities where minorities were kept in inner cities and poor slum areas because they could not find housing in suburb areas.
DE FACTO SEGREGATION
400
Which formerly "all white" university did JAMES MEREDITH register at. It wasn't easy for him because of all the protests against him. The U.S. Army even had to be brought in to keep the peace.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI (OLE MISS)
400
Name the group of American volunteers who went to poor countries around the world to help improve daily life there
PEACE CORPS
500
Name the African American religious group that believed a "black nation" should be created composed of all "non-white" peoples.
NATION OF ISLAM
500
Name the protests in Alabama that did create a lot of television and newspaper coverage because the police used fire hoses and police dogs on demonstrators.
BIRMINGHAM (ALABAMA) PROTESTS
500
AFRICAN AMERICAN political party that formed after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They were known as the Black Panthers. This political movement was known as ...
BLACK POWER MOVEMENT
500
Name the store in Greensboro North Carolina that college students participated in the first Civil Rights "SIT-IN". They sat at a lunch counter and refused to leave when they were not served .
WOOLWORTH'S
500
Name the event that brought the U.S. and Soviet Union closed to NUCLEAR WAS. Fidel Castro was the leader of the country where this event took place
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