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Who was Rosa Parks?
An American activist in the Civil Rights movement best known for her protest aboard a bus in which she refused to move to the back.
What does Chicano mean?
When fifteen hundred Mexican American students met in Denver in 1969 to hammer out a new political and cultural agenda. They proclaimed a new term, Chicano (and its feminine form, Chicana), to replace Mexican American.
What year did the Civil Rights Movement start?
1954
What was the "Freedom Summer"?
A 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black Voters in Mississippi.
Yearlong boycott of Montgomery's segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city's African American population.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Best known for his "I Have A Dream" speech, Luther King was a minister and and activist who became the post valuable leader of the civil rights movement.
A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower the mostly Mexican American migrant farmworkers who faced discrimination and exploitative conditions, especially in the Southwest.
United Farm Workers
When was "To Secure These Rights" published?
1947
What is Black Nationalism?
A major strain of African American thought that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Law passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration that empowered the federal government to intervene to ensure minorities' access to the voting booth.
Who found the United Farm Workers movement along with Dolores Huerta?
Cesar Chavez
What is the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)?
A Mexican American civil rights organization founded in 1967 and based on the model of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. MALDEF focused on legal issues and endeavored to win protections against discrimination through court decisions.
When was the American GI Forum?
March 26, 1948
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1965?
Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations illegal.
What was a prominent black trade union of railroad car porters working for the Pullman Company?
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
The Court's first African-American justice. He served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
What was La Raza Unida?
Organization founded in Texas in 1970 by Mexican Americans as an alternative to the two major political parties; La Raza Unida (The United Race) ran candidates for state governor and other local government positions in the 1970s.
What Party was founded during the Freedom Summer of 1964?
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
What was a religion founded in the United States that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s.
Nation of Islam
What was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
A student civil rights group founded in 1960 under the mentorship of activist Ella Baker. Eventually the Committee expelled non-black members and promoted "black power" and the teachings of Malcolm X.
Who is Malcolm X and what did he preach?
An African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He advocated violence only for self-defense. Hostile to mainstream civil rights organizations, he caustically referred to the 1963 March on Washington as the “Farce on Washington.”
What is the Community Service Organization?
A California group founded in the 1950s to promote Mexican political participation and civil rights.
What occurred on August 28, 1963?
A quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to demand that Congress end Jim Crow racial discrimination and launch a major jobs program to bring needed employment to black communities. (March on Washington)
What was the Black Panther Party?
A militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence, founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
Supreme Court ruling of 1954 that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.