SEGREGATION & CIVIL RIGHTS BASICS
This term refers to the enforced separation of people based on race.
What is segregation?
This 1896 case upheld segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This woman’s arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This conflict was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without direct fighting.
What is the Cold War?
This period saw a large increase in births after World War II.
What is the baby boom?
Segregation that exists because of laws is called this.
What is de jure segregation?
This organization used court cases to challenge segregation.
What is the NAACP?
This leader promoted nonviolent protest and rose to prominence during the boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This law helped veterans pay for college and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill?
Segregation that exists in practice but not by law is called this.
What is de facto segregation?
This lawyer led many NAACP cases and later became a Supreme Court justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This group of student activists organized sit-ins and grassroots campaigns.
What is SNCC?
This 1947 policy promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This term describes the movement of Americans to suburbs after WWII.
What is suburbanization?
This phrase described how separate systems were unequal for Black Americans.
What is “separate but not equal”?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
These protests tested desegregation of interstate transportation.
What are the Freedom Rides?
This program provided economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This new technology became central to American entertainment and culture in the 1950s.
What is television?
This idea challenged both legal and social systems of inequality across the U.S.
What is the civil rights movement?
This follow-up decision called for desegregation with “all deliberate speed.”
What is Brown II?
This 1963 event brought thousands to Washington to demand jobs and freedom.
What is the March on Washington?
This doctrine described nuclear deterrence based on mutual destruction.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This cultural movement challenged conformity and traditional values in the 1950s.
What is the Beat Generation?