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segregation that is imposed by law
What is de jure segregation
100
city where bus boycotts began?
What is Montgomery?
100
major campaign focused on registering African Americans to vote
What is Freedom Summer?
100
refused to give up her seat to a white person
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Supreme Court case ruling "separate but equal" as being constitutional
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
segregation by custom or tradition
What is de facto segregation
200
protesting in restaurant counters
What is a sit in?
200
march to pressure federal government to enact voting rights legislation
What is the March on Selma?
200
Promoted non-violence and civil disobedience
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
court case desegregating Mexican and white schools
What is Mendez v. Westminster?
300
NAACP attorney that challenged the legality of segregation
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
individuals riding from Washington D.C. to New Orleans to challenge bus segregation
Who are the Freedom Riders?
300
banned literacy tests and empowered the fed. govt. to oversee voting registration
What is the Voting Rights Act?
300
became the symbol of young militant African Americans
Who are the Black Panthers?
300
American document stating that "all men are created equal"
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
Supreme Court case that desegregated public education at all grade levels?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
event that united major civil rights group to pressure Congress to pass a new civil rights bill
What is the March on Washington?
400
banned the poll tax, which had been used to keep poor African Americans from voting
What is the Twenty Fourth Amendment?
400
Radical leader that emphasized Black Nationalism
Who is Malcolm X?
400
first black student at the University of Mississippi?
Who is James Meredith?
500
Group of students that faced opposition to integration at Central High School.
Who are Little Rock Nine?
500
banned segregation in public accommodations and gave federal law the ability to force school boards to desegregate schools
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
banned discrimination in housing
What is the Fair Housing Act?
500
grass roots organization involving all classes of African Americans in order to defeat racism and obtain equality
Who is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC?
500
Salguero's birth month
What is July?