Limitations of the Government
This Court opened a new Chapter in the judiciary’s role in America’s race relation and decided a plethora of civil rights cases.
What is the Warren Court?
Rosa parks held this position in her local chapter of the NAACP
secretary
This organization was outlawed in Alabama as communistic and a foreign corporation
NAACP
A NAACP branch president in the 1950s and a journalist in the Arkansas State Press
Who was Daisy Bates?
Cities where African Americans held the balance of power in tight elections
A lawyer who was insulted by Supreme Court Justice James Reynolds when arguing Gaines v Canada
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
This Montgomery preacher was put in charge of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King
This movement brought a much needed victory for the SCLC and stopped the Kennedy administration's hands off approach to civil rights.
Birmingham Movement
The first successful integration of a public university
What was accomplished by Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes?
In 1949 became a judge on the Third United States Circuit Court of Appeals
William H. Hastie
This figure played a critical role in the passage of Civil Rights Act of 1957 and was nicknamed the “101st Senator”
Who is Lawyer Clarence Mitchell?
At the age of 15 this woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus
Claudette Colvin
This activist’s students would become influential leaders in the sit-in movement
James M. Lawson, Jr
Graduate of Avery College in Charleston and taught reading skills to illiterate adults and children
Who is Septima Clark?
This even has a black man from Chicago traveling to Washington DC on roller skates
What was the March on Washington in 1963?
Created by Civil Rights Act of 1964 established the federal Community Relations Service to help individuals and communities solve civil rights problems
What is the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
This organization was an umbrella group including the local NAACP, Women’s Political Council, civil, business, religious and fraternal organizations in Montgomery
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
zell Blair, Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeill and David Richmond staged the first successful sit-in and came to be known as?
The Greensboro Four
Symbols and strategies used in women’s missionary societies
What are “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize”, “We Shall Overcome”, “Aint Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round”?
There was a discovery that led to black people in 1963 New York to launch rent strike against slumlords and a call for Martin Luther King's assistance in Chicago
What happened when cities refused to enforce their own anti bias housing codes?
Presidential administration where many and immediate african americans were appointed to high-profile federal positions
Kennedy's administration
Bayard Rustin
This movement failed due to a combination of factors such as targeted police brutality, fracturing civil rights unity and segregationist influence within the Kennedy administration
The Albany Movement
A woman who led a militant campaign of sit-ins in June 1963 that led to mass arrests
Who is Gloria Richardson?
This postwar development was subsidized by federal money even though it denied residence to blacks with a clause stipulating that property could not be sold, rented, or used by people who were not white.
What is Levittown?