Kennedy
What became the most controversial issue of the 1960 election in regards to Kennedy?
What is that he was Roman Catholic.
This was the first victory of the Modern Civil Rights Movement and lasted over 1 year?
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The plaintiffs in the Brown case argued that segregation violated what constitutional amendment?
What is the 14th Amendment.
This woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
What happened to Lee Harvey Oswald?
What is the suspected assassin was assassinated.
Name the biggest foreign policy failure of the Cold War?
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Lyndon Johnson established these two programs as the cornerstone of this "Great Society"?
What is Medicare and Medicaid.
What was the ruling in the Brown v Board of Education case before the Supreme Court?
It was a unanimous ruling.
Name the Texan who served as John F. Kennedy's Vice President?
Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
What was the central purpose of the March on Washington?
To pressure Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act.
(Jobs and Freedom)
Who was the suspected assassin of John F. Kennedy?
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald.
The MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association) made three demands: courtesy to black rides, first come, first serve sitting and ____________?
What is the hiring of black bus drivers.
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case overturned what previous Supreme Court decision?
What is the "separate but equal" doctrine established in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
Leader of the civil rights movement influenced by the non violent, direct action of late Indian nationalist Mahatma Gandhi?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Name the two men who supported civil rights who were tragically assassinated in 1968?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Robert F. Kennedy
First televised debates, youngest elected President in U.S. History. Both are associated with John F. Kennedy despite the fact that in regards to the election result in 1960, Kennedy
A- won a landslide election or B- won, but in a close election.
What is Option B.
The Freedom Rides sought to highlight discrimination in what area?
What is in interstate travel (Bus Stations).
Name the President who secured passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson.
Name the President who sent in federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine?
Who is President Eisenhower.
The Bay of Pigs invasion utilized who to invade Cuba and depose Castro from power?
Who was Cuban exiles trained by the CIA.
John F. Kennedy won the close election of 1960 by securing votes where?
What Texas and the South.
The Cuban missile crisis came to an end with the Soviets agreeing to dismantle their nuclear weapons in Cuban in exchange for the U.S. to do what?
What is dismantle their missiles in Turkey and promise not to invade Cuba.
The "Sit-In" movement was largely led by what group?
What is college students!
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
(SNCC)
Who was Orval Faubus?
Arkansas Governor who used the National Guard to block the Little Rock Nine from attending Central High.
Identify one unique aspect to the Freedom riders strategy?
What is sit together in integrated pairs, black riders sit in the front of the bus and white and black riders sit in the back of the bus.