The Civil Rights Movement
What does segregation mean?
The action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender.
What woman began the Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities?
Dinners/ restaurants
Jim Crow laws mandated separation of races where? (name 3 main categories)
Public spaces, transportation, and schools.
Who was assassinated on April 4th, 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr. or MLK.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Movement which called for African American power and independence.
The Black Power Movement.
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
What is Civil Rights act of 1964.
Founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense who engaged in several high-profile, violent confrontations with police
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale
U.S. African-American militant party.
Black Panthers
9 teenagers who were the first African American students to desegregate a High School in Arkansas.
Little Rock 9
What terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
The Ku Klux Klan or KKK.
What Supreme court case stated that "separate but equal" was constitutional?
In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson
This granted African American men the right to vote.
The 15th Amendment.
What are the 2 types of segregations?
De Jure Segregation and De Facto Segregation.
The leader of the Black Power Movement and argued African Americans should work for social and political independence.
Malcom X
Over 200,000 people joined together to demand racial equality and economic justice alongside MLK.
The March on Washington in 1963
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
The segregation of American public schools was illegal
Nonviolent protests to demonstrate the desire of African-Americans to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
Selma March
What was the problem of the "separate but equal" doctrine?
Created a system of legalized inequality.
SNCC chairman who popularized the term "black power"
Stokely Carmichael
Series of protests in which African American and white bus riders traveled together throughout the south
Freedom Riders
Gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans' voting rights.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
What event highlighted the simmering frustration and anger of the lingering unemployment crisis and police brutality in urban areas?
Harlem Race Riots