Tactics
Events
People
Other Protest Movements
Grab Bag
100
What is civil disobedience?
Purposely breaking laws to show how unjust they are.
100
At what event did MLK deliver his "I have a Dream Speech"?
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
100
Civil rights leader who believed in non-violent protesting and was assassinated in 1968
MLK
100
Which minority group suffers from the model minority myth?
Asian Americans
100
What were Jim Crow Laws?
laws that discriminated against African Americans with concern to attendance in public schools and the use of facilities such as restaurants, theaters, hotels, cinemas and public baths. Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people.
200
The ruling in this Supreme Court case made segregation in public schools illegal
Brown v. Board of Education
200
These took place during the Summer of 1961 and were met with extreme violence, including one where their bus was burned.
Freedom Rides
200
This member of the NAACP refused to give up her seat on the bus. What did this event lead to?
Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott
200
This group was founded in 1968 to fight for Native American rights
American Indian Movement
200
What is the difference between de jure and de facto discrimination?
One is discrimination by law, another is by custom
300
What is the name for a demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave
Sit-in
300
MLK and other civil rights activists tried to march from this American city to protest the killing of Jimmy Lee Jackson and demonstrate for voting rights but they were stopped with violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Selma
300
What was the name for a small group of African American students selected to integrate Central High School
Little Rock 9
300
Formed to fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women
National Organization for Women
300
What was the name for the main student organization that led sit-ins and other protests during the Civil Rights Movement?
SNCC
400
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
A 1896 Supreme Court case that created "separate but equal"
400
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed segregation in _______, ______ ______, and ____.
What are schools, public places, and jobs?
400
The murder of this boy was the spark to the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Emmett Till
400
What law did disability activists successfully apply pressure for Congress to vote for?
Americans with Disabilities Act
400
Name two barriers that were put in place to keep African Americans from voting?
Literacy test, printing names in the paper, vouchers from registered voters, poll tax, grandfather clause
500
This man started his career in activism with SNCC but later became a supporter of Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
500
The lowest point of Freedom Summer refers to what tragic event. (Be sure to include the names of those involved)
What is the murder of three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney.
500
Nation of Islam leader who argued that integration would never solve African Americans' problems
Malcolm X
500
Name one group involved in the Chicano power movement.
Raza Unida Party (political party committed to Chicano causes)
MECHA (Chicano studies movement)
Brown Berets (Modeled after Black Panthers) included former gang members who committed themselves to the “service, education, and defense.”
Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO): establish community services- child care, legal aid, housing, employment, and healthcare
500
What was stonewall? When did it happen?
Riot against police raid at a gay bar in the village. Start of the modern gay rights movement. June 28th, 1969