Key Court Cases & Laws
This Supreme Court case ruled that “separate but equal” was constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Peacefully sitting at a “whites-only” lunch counter is an example of this.
Civil disobedience
This boycott showed the financial power of the Black community dealing with transportation.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This leader believed in nonviolence and integration.
Martin Luther King Jr
Laws enforcing racial separation.
Jim Crow Laws
This case overturned Plessy by arguing segregation creates a sense of inferiority.
Brown v. Board of Education
Nonviolent resistance aimed to do this.
Expose the moral difference between peaceful protestors and violent
This event mostly helped push for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
March on Washington
This leader is associated with “by any means necessary.”
Malcolm X
The process of ending separation between races.
Desegregation
This law ended segregation in public places but did NOT directly focus on voting barriers.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Montgomery Bus Boycott used this type of pressure.
Economic Pressure
The open-casket funeral of this person shocked the nation.
Emmett Till
This organization focused on winning change through the courts.
NACCP
MLK said “Wait” in his letter. This most likely meant what?
Never
This law was passed after Selma to protect voting rights.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Sit-ins were risky because they involved this.
Arrests and dangers due to not fighting back
This event created a clash between state and federal power.
Little Rock Nine crisis
This group used moral and religious arguments for justice.
SCLC
Television helped the movement by doing this.
Showing violence to the entire nation
This amendment eliminated poll taxes.
24th Amendment
This group believed grassroots, student-led activism was most effective.
SNCC
his campaign used children to expose brutality on national TV.
Birmingham Campaign
This movement criticized nonviolence as too slow.
Black Power Movement
The ultimate goal of the movement in MLK’s dream speech.
A society where people are judged by character, not skin color