Civil Rights Vocabulary
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 is the "nickname" for Congress of Racial Equality?
CORE
To keep apart on basis of group differences, such as race -- is the definition of what word?
Segregation
While not entirely against it, this Civil Rights leader was skeptical of non violent tactics.
Malcolm X
List 3 different tactics black and white activists used to fight for Civil Rights?
Protests, marches, sit-ins, boycotts, demonstrations, and legal action.
Name two voter suppression laws that existed in the south.
Grandfather clause, Literacy Test, Poll Tax, Ext.
Ella Baker was a part of what organization that trained students on how to be nonviolence activists?
SNCC or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
When segregation is not the law, but is still occurring.
De Facto Segregation
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
This civil rights campaign gained national attention after photos of police brutality were shown on the news.
Birmingham Campaign
This amendment got rid of poll taxes.
24th Amendment
Martin Luther King, Jr's organization
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Legal, social, and economic rights that guarantee freedom and equality for all citizens are called what?
One of the planners of the March on Washington, this individual did not receive credit due being gay and his former communist beliefs.
Bayard Rustin
This group of 9 students needed military escort in order to attend their desegregated school.
Little Rock 9
This law made voting suppression tactics, such as literacy tests, illegal.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What does NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The idea that white institutions would not be helpful to the Black community, and that new institutions would need to be created specifically for Black individuals.
Black Separatism
This SNCC activist's name is currently attached to a bill to protect voting rights.
John Lewis
This march for voters rights in the deep south started with less people then it finished with.
Selma
What law finally stopped de jure discrimination against race, color, religion, gender, and national origin?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
These two civil rights organizations were considered more extreme then the others.
Nation of Islam, Black Panther Party