Nature & Characteristics of Discrimination
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 allowed the federal government to enforce desegregation and prohibits discrimination in public facilities, in government and in employment. The ____ laws in the South were abolished, and it became illegal to compel segregation of the races in schools, housing or hiring.
What are Jim Crow laws
In 1964, the Congress of Racial Equality began sending student volunteers on bus trips to test the implementation of new laws prohibiting segregation in interstate travel facilities. One of the first two groups of the _____ as they are called, encountered its first problem two weeks later when a mob in Alabama sets their vehicle on fire. The program continued and by the end of the summer, more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white, participated.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
A. John F. Kennedy
B. Ronald Reagan
C. Lyndon B Johnson
B. Who is Lyndon B Johnson
In 1868, it was added to the Constitution to grant due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.
a. 14th Amendment
b. 15th Amendment
c. 119th Amendment
A. What is the 14th Amendment?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What civil rights organization did Martin Luther King Jr. belong to?
A. NAACP
B. SNCC
C. SCLC
C. What is SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimously ruled in this landmark case that public school segregation was unconstitutional and paved the way for desegregation.
What is Brown v. Board?
This protest movement was spearheaded after Rosa Parks' famous refusal to move seats on the bus
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This world-renowned black nationalist leader was assassinated in 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan on the first day of National Brotherhood Week. He was a Black Muslim Minister, revolutionary black freedom fighter, civil rights activist and for a time the national spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, he famously spoke of the need for black freedom "by any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court decision in this case upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad cars. The ruling stated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution dealt with political and not social equality.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What was Freedom Summer?
Effort combining education, voter registration, & political activism. Black and white volunteers worked together to develop freedom schools. Resulted in thousands of African Americans gaining education and registering to vote.
Name one leader from the civil rights movement and what they did!
MLK Jr.
Marcus Garvey
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Hosea Williams
John Lewis
etc
Explain why overall upward mobility was difficult for African Americans during this time? Make at least 3 key points!
violence (vigilante groups like the KKK), Jim crow laws, lack of education, segregation, voter disenfranchisement, overall racism & violence against them
In 1965, these marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were actually three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
What are the Selma to Montgomery Marches?
NAACP