People/Groups
A group devoted to the intimidation and violence against the African American population
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
When businesses required workers to labor until a debt is paid off. Also know as: debt slavery.
What is Peonage?
The movement of millions of Africans from the rural south to the urban north that took place throughout the 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
Large, violent, pretests conducted by white mobs, that often ended in death, all in response to political elections.
What are race riots?
The Amendments added to the Constitution to provide legal and political equality of African Americans after the American Civil War.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
A boy lynched for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
Who is Emmitt Till?
When a group of people act as the law and give a death sentence to someone.
What is Lynching?
The single worst incident of racial violence in American history, that resulted in the death to 50-100 African Americans and the complete destructing of Greenwood, an American American neighborhood.
What is the Tulsa Race Riot?
The Supreme court trial and decision that ended racial segregation in public schools.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
Acts used by federal officials to restrain KKK activity.
What are the Enforcement acts of 1870 and 1871?
The nine students chosen for the integration of Central High in Arkansas.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
When election officials included extra ballots to make sure the candidate they support wins the election.
What is ballot stuffing?
A movement starting in December of 1955 and lasting a year, that protested the segregation of public transport.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Challenges of the Supreme Court's decision that interstate buses and rail stations were not allowed to be segregated.
What are the Freedom Rides, 1961?
The plan that allowed Superintendent Virgil Blossom to pick a handful of Black students to begin the integration of previously white-only schools.
What is the Blossom Plan?
Arguably the face of the American Civil Rights Movement, known for his famous speech recited at the March on Washington in 1963
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
A Concept of the South, that stated that states could refuse federal legislation if they believed the government had over-stepped its bounds.
What is Interposition?
The group that attacked the Trailways bus in Birmingham, brutally beating the riders and bystanders.
Who is the KKK?
The group that organized the second Freedom ride from Nashville to Montgomery.
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee(SNCC)?
Acts that defined the segregation of interstate transportation and its facilities unconstitutional.
What are the Commerce Clause and the Interstate Commerce Act?
A Conference created in Atlanta in January and in New Orleans in February, of 1957.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Groups of people that the police thought were keeping African Americans from boarding the buses.
What are Goon Squads?
The year when CORE reported that segregation of interstate travel had ended.
When is 1962?
The reason King lost respect in the eyes of many SNCC members.
Why is because he didn't join the freedom rides when others were risking just as much as him to go on the ride?
When anyone under previous circumstances can continue under those laws, while new people are subject to the new rules.
What is the Grandfather Clause?