Civil Rights Groups
This organization, founded in 1909, focused on legal challenges to segregation and discrimination.
NAACP
This minister and Civil Rights Leader delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A peaceful refusal to buy goods or services to protest injustice.
Boycott.
These laws enforced racial segregation across the South after Reconstruction and were designed to disenfranchise African Americans.
Jim Crow Laws.
Which President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Lyndon B Johnson.
This organization, led by MLK and created with other religious ministers, emphasized non-violent protests.
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
This activist refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery Bus in 1955.
Rosa Parks
Students sitting at segregated lunch counters refusing to leave participated in this type of protest.
Sit-in.
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education.
Which President signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law?
Lyndon B. Johnson
This student-led group organized sit-ins.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
A former member of the Nation of Islam, this activist originally advocated for Black Nationalism before shifting to a more moderate approach to Civil Rights.
Malcolm X.
Conducted by CORE, activists who rode interstate buses to challenge segregation were known by this name.
Freedom Riders.
Which city in Florida did Martin Luther King stage peaceful protests in to gain support for a Civil Rights Bill?
St. Augustine.
This 1965 law eliminated literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses, and made it easier for African Americans to vote.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This interracial organization organized the Freedom Rides to rid segregation on interstate buses.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
This Civil Rights Activist was the head of the Florida NAACP and filed a series of lawsuits for Civil Rights.
Harry T. Moore
The March on Washington.
Which city in Florida was the site of a bus boycott in 1956?
Tallahassee.
This 1964 law outlawed discrimination in employment and in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This militant Civil Rights organization, created in 1966 by Huey Newton, promoted self-defense and Black Power.
The Black Panthers.
Stokely Carmichael.
Who organized the "Freedom Summer" in 1964, where over 700 white college students helped African Americans in Mississippi register to vote?
Fannie Lou Hamer.
Which Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine in 1896?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which amendment made it illegal to deny the right to vote based on race, or previous condition of servitude?
15th amendment.