Key People
Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
The Congress of Racial Equality was mainly known as...
C.O.R.E.
This 1963 march pushed for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and involved MLK's "I have a dream" speech
What is the March on Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ruled that segregated facilities were legal as long as they were ...
Equal
Dejure segregation means legal segregation but this kind of segregation is experienced in social and economic realities
De Facto Segregation
This Civil Rights leader promoted black power and was a member of the Nation of Islam
Who is Malcolm X
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded this organization on the principles of Black Power and Self-defense
The Black Panthers
The police brutality in Birmingham shocked America as police unleashed dogs and sprayed___________ at peaceful protestors and children
Firehoses
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ordered the integration of public schools in 1954
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
These students had to be escorted into their Arkansas high school, by federal troops, after not being allowed in by the Arkansas governor...
The Little Rock 9
This leader became the primary leader of the civil rights movement after organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK Jr.
John Lewis organized this group, along with other students who participated in the Greensboro Sit Ins
SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee)
In this Alabama city only 1% of black people were registered to vote. It became the grounds for voting rights protests and Bloody Sunday
Selma
This law outlawed literacy tests and increased African American Voter Registration (1965).
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
James Earl Ray assassinated this person in 1968
MLK/ Martin Luther King Jr.
The murder of this boy is said to have sparked the Black Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s
This group focused on fighting segregation through legal action.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
These activists rode buses through the South to challenge segregation laws.
The Freedom Riders
This law banned employment discrimination and legal segregation of public places in 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Police brutality led to the beginning of both Black Lives Matter and this group (focused on self defense and black power)
Black Panthers
These Olympic athletes raised fists in protest of racial injustice: ____________ & John Carlos
Who were Tommie Smith & John Carlos
MLK Jr. and other Christian leaders lead this Civil Rights organization...
(SCLC) Southern Christian Leadership Convention
This Watts Riot led LBJ to launch this invesstigation of the reason behind the 1960s riots... What was this investigation called?
The Kerner Comission
Shelby County v. Holder (2013) overturned key parts of this Civil Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
This legal strategy was used in Brown v. Board to show that segregation was inherently unequal
The Margold Strategy