People & Places
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court, was nominated by who?
President Johnson (LBJ)
This group of African American high school students were the first formerly segregated students to enter a previously "white" high school in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Martin Luther King practiced civil ___________, a way of peacefully protesting against the law.
What is disobedience?
What are Jim Crow laws?
The March on Washington saw Martin Luther King Jr. give which speech?
What is "I Have a Dream?"
The Battle of Oxford, in which segregationists clashes with federal troops, was over James Meredith's admittance to which college?
Ole Miss (University of Mississippi)
This movement saw young African-American college students occupying public places and refusing to leave as a form of protest.
What is the sit-in movement?
The ____ was the civil rights organization led by high ranking officials in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a black church based in Atlanta, GA.
What is the SCLC?
This Supreme Court ruling resulted in public schools nationwide being desegregated.
What is Brown v. Board of Eduation?
This landmark piece of legislation ended public segregation, and therefore Jim Crow laws.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
These people were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segregated Southern United States in 1961.
Who were freedom riders?
This is an attempt to delay or block a vote on a piece of legislation or a confirmation.
What is a filibuster?
The ________ was the first institution to be desegregated, specifically by President Truman.
What is the military?
This Supreme Court ruling established that public black institutions and facilities were "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Malcolm X belonged to this radical organization, the same organization which ended up assassinating him in 1965.
For one of his largest nonviolent protests, MLK marched along a bridge connecting Montgomery, AL to this city.
What is Selma?
This was the name of the campaign launched by civil rights activists to register as many African Americans in Mississippi to vote as possible.
What is Freedom Summer?
Prior to the 24th Amendment, all Americans had to pay a ____ ___ before casting their ballot.
What is the poll tax?
This law banned literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This is the difference between de jure and de facto segregation.
What is: dejure is by law, and de facto is within society?
This predominantly black neighborhood of Los Angeles was where LA experienced its worst race riots ever at that point.
What is the Watts neighborhood?
This term means to manipulate the boundaries of an electoral district to favor one party or class.
What is gerrymandering?
The Black Panther Party was a political organization that created open-carry patrols and established their own programs aimed at ______ _______?
What is ending poverty?
This Supreme Court ruling limited racial gerrymandering, "one man, one vote."
What is Baker v. Carr?
This was MLK's second most famous speech, aimed at voting rights advocacy.
What is "Give Us the Ballot?"