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What are Freedom Riders?
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who were met with violent mobs throughout Alabama as they challenged the segregation of buses.
separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
segregation
a black civil right activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the american civil rights movement.
Rosa Parks
on average, black men in the US receive sentences that are 19.1% longer than those of white men convicted for the same crimes.
true.
a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group.
a race
what is considered a minority?
a category of people who occupy a lower status in society.
Dr. MLK Jr led a boycott of city buses and after 11 months, the supreme court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the US from the mid 1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
MLK delivered his I have a Dream Speech at the Washington Monument.
False it was at the Lincoln memorial.
what social outcomes can a person's race influence?
education, employment, income, experiences with the criminal justice system
why was the term latino / latina changed to latinx?
it was changed to be more gender neutral and inclusive.
Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
NAACP
at age 6, she was the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate schools in the American South.
Ruby Bridges
Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for one month.
False, it lasted for over a year.
what is an example of race?
black, caucasian, asian
when members of the dominant group take elements of other cultures such as clothing, hair, or makeup, and wear them in an exploitative and disrespectful way.
cultural appropriation.
the United States supreme court ruling in 1954 that declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional.
Brown VS Board of Education
An african american leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s.
Malcolm X
the civil rights act of 1964 outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment.
true.
what do we call a process by which a more powerful ethnic group tries to remove a less powerful one, in order to create a more homogenous region?
ethnic cleansing
these are ideas of society like race and ethnicity that are "created by people" and are given value by society.
social constructs.
a form of non-violent civil disobedience where African Americans would sit in the white only sections of lunch counters to deny the use of that spot to others.
Sit-Ins
An african american female civil rights activist and newspaper publisher who documented the battle to end segregation in Arkansas.
Daisy Bates
the civil rights movement ended with the assassination of MLK Jr in 1968.
false.
what term refers to a racial, ethnic, or religious minority that a member of the dominant group uses to blame for their failure to achieve desired goals?