Civil Rights Organizations
MLK's Organization
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Brown v. Board overturned
Plessy v. Ferguson
Generally considered the two most important pieces of federal legislation to come from the CRM
The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act
Group that used radical actions to affirm Native identity
AIM
Spokesperson for the NOI until 1964
Malcolm X
Resulted from the Greensboro Sit Ins
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Test case for Brown v. Board at the K-12 level
Little Rock
Event that helped produced MLK's famous letter from jail
Birmingham Movement/Demonstrations
Site of federal stand off with Native activists in 1974
Wounded Knee
What year did the Civil Rights Movement end?
1965......
or 1968?!!
Either is acceptable
Organization that brought the lawsuit that led to Brown v. Board
NAACP
Event that pushed LBJ and Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act
Selma March
Ultimately, this president proved to be more supportive of Civil Rights legislation that his predecessors
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Movement affirming Mexican American identity
Chicano movement
Action meant to test a Supreme Court case that desegregated bus travel between states
Freedom Rides
Youth wing of the NAACP, organized the Freedom Rides
CORE
Freedom Rides pushed the federal government to enforce this Supreme Court decision
Morgan v. Virginia
The VRA allowed more black people in the South to register to vote. What previous attempt before the VRA was unsuccessful in doing this?
The Mississippi Freedom Summer
Prison occupied by Native activists
Alcatraz
Civil Rights organization that was increasingly influenced by the ideas of Black Power by 1965
SNCC
Most prominent Mexican-American Civil Rights organization
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
The Civil Rights Act created this federal agency to prohibit segregation in hiring
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Why MLK in Memphis in 1968, where he was assassinated?
Supporting a sanitation workers strike
Leader of the UFW
Cesar Chavez
Name of a gay, communist affiliated Civil Rights activist that helped to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycotts and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Bayard Rustin