Civil Rights People
Civil Rights SCOTUS
Civil Rights Vocab
Civil Rights Actions
Civil Rights Legislation
Civil Rights Legal Terms
100
The murder of this young man in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 was a major rallying point for the Civil Rights movement inspiring people like Rosa Parks
Who was Emmett Till?
100
this early SCOTUS case made segregation LEGAL by establishing "separate but equal"
What was Plessy V Ferguson?
100
This school required Pres. Eisenhower to use the U.S. Army to ensure students were not threatened.
What was the Little Rock Central High School?
100
Refused to give up her first class seat on a train in the 1883, and again in 1884.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
100
This Amendment made slavery illegal in the USA
What is the 13th Amendment
100
These types of laws were the first post-reconstruction passed to limit the rights of blacks and included setting curfews, making unemployment illegal, and restricting travel.
What were "black codes"
200
He would be the first African American MLB Baseball player
Who was Jackie Robinson?
200
SCOTUS case that declared "Separate is UNEQUAL" which led to school integration.
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
200
This government organization was used to enforce the desegregation of Universities of Mississippi and Alabama.
What was the U.S. Marshalls?
200
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
200
The amendment states that voting cannot be denied based on race
What was the 15th Amendment?
200
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
300
This Civil Rights leader best known for use of Civil Disobedience, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Selma marches, etc
Who was Martin Luther King?
300
He was the civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v Board of Education before the Supreme Court then went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice from 1968 and served until his retirement in 1991.
Who was Thurgood Marshall
300
Group that formed initially to provide armed protection for blacks during civil rights rallies
What was the Black Panthers?
300
In late 1955, Rosa Parks' arrest led to a one year response from the the African American Community.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
This act was passed to end all segregation
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
This Supreme Court Case occurred two years prior to the Spanish American War
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
This civil rights leader started as a radical Muslim but softened his stance after his trip to Mecca, and was assassinated by the NOI
Who was Malcom X?
400
This Supreme Court Case made interracial marriages legal
What was Loving v Virginia?
400
Stokely Carmichael coined the term associated with this image
What is "Black Power?"
400
An attempt to register black Mississippians to vote in the summer of 1964
What was the Freedom Summer?
400
This Civil Rights Act made it illegal for states to interfere in voting rights
What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
This term is to describe a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but nevertheless school segregation continued.
What is de facto segregation?
500
This college student would be the first African American admitted into Ole Miss in 1962
Who was James Meredith?
500
The decision in this case allowed Mexican children to go to public school with Caucasian children. This case occurred in 1947.
What was Mendez v. Westminster?
500
This movement promoted by Ghandi, King and others--The belief that it can be justified to break UNFAIR laws is known as "Civil ________"
What is disobedience?
500
This civil rights activist organized the March on Washington in the summer of 1963
Who was Bayard Rustin?
500
Civil Rights Act (YEAR) that made housing discrimination illegal
1968
500
This states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?