The Civil Rights Movement Strengthens
What form of segregation is imposed by law?
de jure segregation
What does SNCC stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
banned poll tax
Who was arrested for the assassination of JFK?
Lee Harvey Oswald
What did Johnson declare war on?
Poverty
What Supreme Court Case ended segregation in schools?
Brown v Board of Education
What peaceful protest tested the interstate system's desegregation?
Freedom Ride
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ban?
Literacy tests
What was created to investigate the assassination of JFK?
Warren Commission
Johnson wanted to create what, to end poverty and racial injustice?
Great Society
What piece of legislation investigated violations of civil rights?
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Who made the famous statement "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" (need name and title)
George Wallace - Governor of Alabama
Which Civil Rights leader pushed young African Americans towards self-defense and away from nonviolence?
Malcolm X
Who killed the killer of JFK?
Jack Ruby
What piece of legislation did LBJ help to pass while serving in Congress?
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Who inadvertently sparked the Civil Rights Movement?
Emmett Till
What protest involved +200,000 people?
March on Washington
Black Panthers
What film was taken on the day of JFK's assassination?
Zapruder Film
What altered the Immigration Quota System?
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Who sparked the Bus Boycott Movement?
What school did James Meredith try to attend?
University of Mississippi - Ole Miss
What day and city was MLK assassinated?
April 4, 1968 - Memphis, Tennessee
What failed invasion did JFK okay, which was originally formed by Eisenhower?
Bay of Pigs
What two things did Johnson add to the Social Security Act that helped elders and people in poverty?
Medicare and Medicaid
What does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban?
Segregation in public places
Who assassinated MLK?
James Earl Ray
What caused the USA, USSR, and Cuba to almost go to nuclear war? (something)
Soviet missile sites being built in Cuba
During Johnson's presidency, what nickname did the Supreme Court get?
Warren Court