Civil Rights Leaders
This leader led the famous March on Washington in 1963.
This movement began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This President was responsible for signing both Civil Rights laws in 1964 and 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
What does segregation mean? Name three different types of places that were segregated.
What is "the separation of races (black and white) in all public places."
What are "Restaurants, hospitals, schools, graveyards, swimming pools, movie theaters, etc."
This leader joined forces with Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King Jr. to fight for equal rights until he was assassinated in 1968.
Who is Robert (Bobby) F. Kennedy?
This court ruling outlawed segregation in public schools throughout the United States.
What is the Brown V Board of Education Decision?
Name the three primary voting restrictions that were put into place to prevent African Americans from voting.
What is the grandfather clause, literacy test, and poll tax?
Name the four Political Leaders who were assassinated between 1963-1968?
Who is JFK, Malcolm X, MLK jr. ,and RFK.
Both of these individuals changed their name to protest white supremacy and to represent their African heritage?
Who is Malcolm X and Mohammad Ali
This person is given credit for helping to spark the entire Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
The name given to activists who participated in sit-in protests. Also, what did the protests help to change.
Who are the Greensboro Four and what is the desegregation of restaurants throughout the United States?
What happened to Emmet Till? How did it help to spark the Civil Rights Movement? Who did this inspire?
He was murdered by two white racists after the wife accused him of whistling at her.
The mother published his mutilated face in the newspaper for the whole nation to see. This outraged the nation.
This inspired Rosa Parks to refuse to give up her seat on a bus.
Explain three ways Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were different?
King - Christian, Non-Violent, and Great Childhood
X - Muslim, Violence if Necessary, and Tough Childhood.
This group violated segregated seating rules on bus trips across the United States. What impact did their actions have?
Who are the Freedom Riders?
What is it led to the desegregation of public transportation throughout the United States.
This person was considered radical for his time. What kind of radical views did he have? (at least two)
Who is Malcolm X and What are violence if necessary and the separation of the black and white races?
What happened when the first black students attempted to integrate into the first white school in 1957? What did these students become known as?
What is they were harassed by a mob and the national guard was called in to protect them. Who is the "Little Rock Nine"?
This case determined that black people could now go to school with white people. Also, what was the reaction to this ruling?
What is the Brown v Board of education ruling and what is white resistance to integration and white flight occurred? (mobs, violence, name-calling, etc)
Who gave the "I Have a Dream Speech"? Also, what two historical documents did King reference in his speech and why?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
What is the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is he mentions them because both promised equality and freedom to people in the United States.
Name each Constitutional Amendment that was passed to promote equality for African Americans and define them. (There are 3)
What is the 13th Amendment - Abolishes Slavery
What is the 14th Amendment - Grants Citizenship and Equal Protection under the law
What is the 15th Amendment - Grants the the right to vote for African American men.
This Civil Rights leader was a part of the NAACP for most of their life. Also, what does the NAACP stand for?
Who is Rosa Parks and what is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
What were three primary achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. Describe each in detail.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Banning segregation and discrimination based on color in the United States
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Banned voting restrictions in elections.
What is the Loving V Virginia Ruling - Made interracial marriage legal throughout the United States.
These two organizations formed to promote equality for African Americans. Name both organizations, their leaders, and explain what their main goal was.
What is the SCLC? Formed to stage non-violent demonstrations for equality. Leader was MLK jr.
What is the NAACP? Formed to demand an immediate end to segregation. Leader was WEB Dubois.
Describe Malcolm X's background. What were his views on civil rights? Also, what group was he a part of most of his life?
What is he was imprisoned for armed robbery, spent ten years in prison, and grew up in divorced household
His views were violence if necessary and to maintain a separation of the races. He believed whites were the enemy.
He was a part of the Nation of Islam
What was the primary purpose of the March on Washington in 1963? List three demands that were made at the march. Also, what speech was given and give one quote from the speech.
What is an end to segregation, voting restrictions, and poverty for African Americans. Overall, all discrimination against African Americans.
What is the "I have a dream speech" and quotes will vary.