Civil Rights leaders
Who in 1963, gave the famous “ I have dream” speech?
Martin Luther King
The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities
dinners/ restaurants
Jim Crow laws were put into place to?
to keep African Americans from getting their full equality
What woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and began the Montgomery bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
What does segregation mean?
each race is kept separate from each other
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them.
What is Malcolm X
In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?
stated that separate but equal was constitutional
Not a person, but an event that helped African Americans in rural Mississippi register to vote.
Freedom Summer
What cause does the following slogan support: "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote."
Lower the voting age to 18
This man addressed the issues relating to immigrant labor; low wages, poor conditions, and horrible treatment.
Cesar Chavez
Sometimes it is necessary to disobey unjust laws and to work to have them changed. What statement most accurately reflects this idea?
civil disobedience
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust blacks should be morally obligated to not follow it but accept the consequences. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.
What is Martin Luther King
What event did Arkansas governor Orval Faubus use the national guard to keep segregation in schools?
Little Rock 9
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to?
to end segregation based on race
what other group protested for equal rights during the Civil Rights Movement?
- African Americans -Disabled
- Immigrants - ____?____
Women
What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights
Declaration of Independence
This act gave the federal government the power to enforce desegregation after it was ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Which amendment removed the poll tax (economic barrier)?
24th amendment
Literacy tests, Poll Taxes & the Grandfather Clause was put into place to?
to prevent African Americans from voting
What court case granted women the right to get an abortion?
Roe v. Wade