Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is head of what Branch in our government
Judicial
Segregation Laws in the South
Jim Crow Laws
Where did Martin Luther King JR give his I have a dream speech
Washington DC, Lincoln Memorial
considered the Leader of the Civil Rights movement
Martin Luther King Jr
What years are we learning about right now
1950s - 1960s
This Supreme Court Case made it unconstitutional to have segregated schools
Brown V Board 1954
The South prevented African Americans from voting by doing what?
Poll Tax, Literacy Tests, Violence and Intimidation
City where the Bus Boycott Started, Lead by Rosa Parks
Montgomery Alabama
Started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Name of MLK's famous speech
I have a dream
Supreme Court Case in 1896 that allowed for segregation and the creation of Jim Crow Laws
What is Plessy V Ferguson
These laws were used to assign students to schools to avoid integration.
Pupil Placement Laws
Founded in 1909, this organization fought to secure civil rights for African Americans. What is its abbreviation, and in which area did it specifically focus its efforts?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Name of the first African American in Professional Baseball
Jackie Robinson
What did the Governor of Arkansas do in 1958, the school year after the Little Rock Crisis in response to desegregation
Close Public Schools
First African American Supreme Court Justice
What is Thurgood Marshall
This tactic was used by Strom Thurmond to delay the Civil Rights act of 1957
filibuster
Another name for peaceful protests disobeying undjust laws
civil disobedience
Name for the Students who integrated a high school in Little Rock Arkansas
Little Rock 9
The president who responded to Little Rock by sending the 101st Airborne
Eisenhower
How many Supreme Court Justices are there
9
Which Civil Rights Act officially ended segregation
Civil Rights act of 1964
Type of protest that started at Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina. Participates would not move until served
Sit In
Student who integrated the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
This 1956 document signed by 100+ congressmen opposed Brown V. Board
Southern Manifesto