Taking on Segregation
Triumph of a Crusade
Challenges and Changes
Civil Rights Leaders
Miscellaneous
100
Because of this court case, signs like “colored” and “Whites Only” were the norm for more than 55 years.
Plessy v Ferguson
100
This group is known as…..
Freedom Riders
They hoped to integrate buses and bus terminals
100
This type of segregation was based on practice and custom.
De-Facto Segregation
De jure segregation was based on segregation by law.
100
NAACP Lawyer, lead attorney in Brown v. Board, first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
100
This young man’s brutal murderers were acquitted of any crime, showing that there was an inequality of justice in Mississippi.
Emmitt Till
His case showed that blacks couldn’t getting a fair shake in Southern courts.
200
W.E.B Dubois started this organization in 1905. It’s legal strategy in the 1950’s was focused on the most glaring inequalities of segregated public education.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
Protesting segregation in the most segregated city in the South, MLK writes this most famous reply in jail, outlining his view of the civil rights movement.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
It outlines his view of the movement.
200
This neighborhood in Los Angeles was the scene of one of the worst race riots in American history.
Watts.
34 people killed, hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. This scared white America.
200
Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church until the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 made this civil rights leader a national figure.
Known for “Soul Force.”
MLK Jr.
200
This policy seeks to correct past discrimination by favoring the previously disadvantaged. It’s first uses were in education and job opportunities.
Affirmative Action
300
Linda was denied admission to an all-white school four blocks from her home. Her court case changed the way schools look today.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka KansasLinda Brown’s case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson’s ruling of separate but equal.
300
What does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Banned discrimination in public accomodations and in employment
Established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
300
His philosophy of black superiority and racial separation changed after his trip to Mecca.
Malcolm X
A follower of the Nation of Islam, his trip to Mecca changed his whole outlook on the racial situation in America.
300
This leader of the Civil Rights movement appealed to frustration over a lack of social and economic power for African-Americans. He preached a more militant approach to civil rights than did others.
Malcolm X
300
Laws passed after the Civil War to keep former slaves and whites separate. Named for a character in a minstrel show of the 1830’s.
Jim Crow Laws
They prohibited African-Americans from voting, sitting on juries, appearing in public places with whites.
400
Governor Orval Faubus tried to turn away this group in Arkansas in an attempt to keep the schools segregated.
Little Rock 9
President Eisenhower sent the 101st airborne to enforce the court ruling ending segregation in schools.
400
This campaign, focused in Mississippi, began to register African-Americans to vote.
3 civil rights workers were killed for their service to humanity.
Freedom Summer
400
This young man called for “black people to define their own goals.” It was later called Black Power.
Stokely Carmichael
400
This civil rights leaders “battle cry,” black power became the slogan for militant civil rights activists. He changed his affiliation from SNCC to the Black Panthers.
Stokely Carmichael
400
What three ways were African-Americans kept from voting?
Grandfather clause banned by Supreme Court ruling in 1915
Literacy test eliminated by the Civil Rights Act of 1965
Poll tax deemed unconstitutional by 24th amendment in 1964
500
These four influenced MLK’s brand of non-violent resistance called Soul Force.
Jesus-Agape Love
Thoreau-Civil Disobedience to unjust laws
Gandhi-Non-violent resistance
Randolph-organizational skills
500
This eliminated literacy tests, which began in 1870, after reconstruction ended.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
500
James Earl Ray ended “his” march on a balcony in Memphis in 1968.
Martin Luther King.
500
This civil rights leader wanted Direct Action in the form of building up the negro community, not tearing down the white community. He stressed that voting was key to reaching civil rights.
Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson was another person altogether.
500
Based on the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, this organization preached that whites were the cause of the black condition and that they should separate from white society.
Nation of Islam