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Who led a boycott when refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Who is Rosa Parks
This organization was created by SCLC and NAACP activists in order to organize and train college students in nonviolent resistance.
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.
What is the March on Washington?
This Los Angeles neighborhood experienced a riot shortly after the passage of the Voting Rights Act 1965.
What is Watts?
This law banned all discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, religion, and national origin in all public places.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This president who was embarrassed by the actions toward African Americans during the Birmingham Campaign in 1963, and publicly supported a civil rights bill. His untimely death left the task to his predecessor.
Who was JFK?
This SCLC director and NAACP member founded SNCC at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC.
Who was Ella Baker?
Mississippian African Americans organized carpools and walked to work in order to support this event in 1955-1956.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This is an example of something the Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated.
What are literacy tests, poll taxes in states, or grandfather clauses?
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This president signed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?
A black power organization founded in Oakland, CA in 1966 that supported the U.S. of armed protection in the defense against police brutality?
What was the Black Panther Party?
Three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement with the goal to end discrimination against black voters.
What were the Selma to Montgomery Marches (Selma March)?
"The right of citizens...to vote...shall not be denied...by the United States...by reason of failure to pay any poll tax."
What is the 24th amendment?
In this unanimous decision by the Supreme Court, segregation of public schools was ruled unconstitutional.
What was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS?
MLK was the leader of this Civil Rights organization.
What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
This former SNCC member and young African American activist in the 1960s went on to support the Black Power Movement and encouraged black nationalism.
Who was Stokely Carmichael?
In this 1896 Supreme Court case, the justices ruled that Jim Crow segregation was the right of a state, as long as the facilities were "separate, but equal".
What was Plessy v. Fergusson?
After visiting Mecca (Holiest site in Islam), this person returned to America and changed his anti-white message, but still believed physical defense was sometimes necessary for civil disobedience.
Who was Malcolm X?
This Mississippian activist was arrested and beaten for registering black voters. She famously was cut off on a live broadcast when speaking of her story at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?
This boy's murder is noted as one of the leading events that motivated the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Emmett Till?
These activists rode buses that traveled from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans in order to challenge the new interstate bus laws.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
This law was passed after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. It banned discrimination in public housing, rent, and home loans on the basis of race, gender, religion, or national origin.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
Also will accept, What was the Fair Housing Act?