Civil Rights Vocabulary
What do we call it when everyone is viewed as equal under the law?
Equality
Name a Civil Rights Activist
John Lewis, MLK, Malcolm X, Philip Randolph, Rosa Parks etc
In what city did the Freedom Riders depart from on May 4th, 1961?
Washington, D.C.
What were "separate but equal" laws in the South called?
Jim Crow laws
What was the name given to the group of students who went against segregation and tried to attend High School in Arkansas?
The Little Rock 9
To keep apart on basis of group differences, such as race -- is the definition of what word?
Segregation
Who gave the "I Have a Dream" Speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
List 3 different tactics black and white activists used to fight for Civil Rights?
Protests, marches, sit-ins, boycotts, demonstrations, and legal action.
Thurgood Marshall argued Brown v. Board of Education the highest court in the country. What is the name of this court?
The U.S. Supreme Court OR the United States Supreme Court
What was the 2nd attempt to cross the bridge from Selma to Montgomery called?
Turnaround Tuesday
Unfair treatment of a person or group based on gender, race, age, religion, or other differences -- is the definition of what word?
Discrimination
She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama and was later arrested, for standing up for her rights. She is also known as "the First Lady or Mother of Civil Rights". Who is this activist?
Rosa Parks
What Supreme Court case desegregated and integrated schools?
Brown v. Board of Education, 1956
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished this.
What is slavery?
True or False: Martin Luther King, Jr., was a preacher.
True
What do we call the rights that guarantee freedom and equality for all citizens?
She was the mother of Emmett Till and crusaded for civil rights after his murder.
Mamie Till
The nearly 1 year period of time when no blacks in Montgomery, AL rode the bus.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
What are 4 freedoms that the First Amendment protects?
speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government.
What does NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This is the term for a type of protest where violence is not used.
Peaceful Protest
List anyone from Montgomery Bus Boycott protests.
Ralph Abernathy, Clifford Durr, Fred Gray, Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, E.D. Nixion, Coretta Scott King, NAACP.
This group of college students and their supporters travelled in busses during the summer of 1964 to register southern Blacks to vote. Their busses were targeted and many were injured.
Freedom Riders
This was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown vs the Board of Education
How many justices sit on the Supreme Court of the United States?
Nine