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
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
Ella Baker was a part of what organization that trained students on how to be nonviolence activists?
SNCC or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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
True or False: In 1963, was it legal to keep both private and public businesses segregated in Birmingham, Alabama?
False.
Explanation: We learned that private businesses were still allowed to things segregated BUT public places needed to integrate.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and Fred Shuttlesworth all worked for the organization, SCLC. This organization called on the power and independence of black churches to support its civil rights activities. What does SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Legal, social, and economic rights that guarantee freedom and equality for all citizens are called what?
This child was the youngest marcher in the 1963 Children's March. What is the name of this young activist?
Audrey OR Audrey Hendricks Or Audrey Faye Hendricks
What was the moment or event called, where four students sat to take a stand for their civil rights? And, what were the four students known as?
Greensboro Sit-Ins AND the Greensboro Four
What is the FIVE freedoms, the First Amendment protects?
The five freedoms it 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
These are usually run-down and often overcrowded apartments or houses, usually located in poor sections of a big city.
Tenement homes
Your fellow classmates ALL presented on important activists and organizations during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. List any five of the thirteen Montgomery Bus Boycott Research picks. You may count yours as one of the five.
Ralph Abernathy, Clifford Durr, Fred Gray, Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, E.D. Nixion, Coretta Scott King, NAACP, U.S. Supreme Court decision of 1956, Robert Graetz, Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), and Jo An Robinson.
How many days did it take the Freedom Riders to get from Washington, D.C. to Jackson, Mississippi? Where was their original final destination and why did they not make it to that destination?
20-21 days (departed May 4th and arrived on May 24-25). The original destination was New Orleans. They did not make it because their bus was firebombed/attacked.
What law finally stopped the discrimination against race, color, religion, gender, and national origin?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
How many justices sit on the Supreme Court of the United States?
Nine