Civil Rights People
Civil Rights SCOTUS
Civil Rights Vocab
Civil Rights Actions
Civil Rights Legislation
Civil Rights Legal Terms
100
The murder of this young man in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 was a major rallying point for the Civil Rights movement inspiring people like Rosa Parks
Who was Emmett Till?
100
this early SCOTUS case made segregation LEGAL by establishing "separate but equal"
Plessy V Ferguson
100
What is it called when to keep separate?
Segregation
100
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Mongomery, AL bus
Rosa Parks
100
This Amendment made slavery illegal in the USA
What is the 13th Amendment
100
These types of laws were the first post-reconstruction passed to limit the rights of blacks and included setting curfews, making unemployment illegal, and restricting travel.
What were "black codes"
200
Originator of its rallying slogan, “Black power.
Stokely Carmichael
200
SCOTUS case that declared "Separate is UNEQUAL" which led to school integration.
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
200
What is it called to be brought together?
Integration
200
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
200
Amendment that states voting cannot be denied based on race
15th Amendment
200
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
300
American labor leader and founder of the United Farm Workers labor union
Cesar Chavez
300
He was the civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v Board of Education before the Supreme Court then went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice from 1968 and served until his retirement in 1991.
Who was Thurgood Marshall
300
Group that formed initially to provide armed protection for blacks during civil rights rallies
What was the Black Panthers
300
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Bus Boycott
300
This Civil Rights Act was passed to end all segregation-YEAR?
1964
300
This type of segregation was written as laws and most often used in the south
Dejure
400
He started his civil rights career as a radical muslim but softened his stance and was assassinated by the NOI
Malcom X
400
Supreme Court Case that made interracial marriages legal
Loving v Virginia
400
Stokely Carmichael coined the term associated with this image
What is "Black Power"
400
The attempt to register black Mississippians to vote in the summer of 1964 is referred to as
Freedom Summer
400
Civil Rights Act that made it illegal for states to interfere in voting rights--YEAR
1965
400
This type of segregation laws were implied/unwritten and most often used up north
defacto
500
Civil Rights leader best known for use of Civil Disobedience, I Have a Dream speech, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Selma marches, etc
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
500
Promoted by Ghandi, King and others--The belief that it can be justified to break UNFAIR laws is known as "Civil ________"
Disobedience
500
The young people who rode integrated buses through the south and were often attacked or arrested became known as
Freedom Riders
500
Civil Rights Act (YEAR) that made housing discrimination illegal
1968
500
This letter from southern legislators said southern states should not integrate
Southern manifesto