Levels of Racism
This is an oversimplified belief or idea about a group of people.
Stereotype
What were the Jim Crow laws?
Laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Which civil rights leader said to, "Love your enemy"?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Supreme Court upheld "separate but equal" segregation, legalizing racial segregation in public facilities.
What were the Freedom Riders trying to achieve?
They were challenging segregation on interstate buses and at bus terminals in the South.
A negative attitude or belief toward a person based on their group membership.
Prejudice
What is the name for the tenant farming system put into place after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
Who said change can either come, "through the ballot or the bullet?"
Malcolm X
What was the outcome of Brown v. Board of Education?
The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
Why was the Arkansas National Guard brought to Little Rock Central High School in 1957?
To admit only the White Students
Which level of racism is what most people think of when they hear the word racism?
Personally Mediated
What is the name of the poem by Abel Meeropol that is about the hanging of black bodies in trees?
Strange Fruit
Who did MLK see as the biggest barrier to change?
The White Moderate
What was the term used in the ruling of Brown vs Board of Education that was important to determining how schools were desegregated?
"All Deliberate Speed"
Give 1 example of how the traditional story of Rosa
Parks is a myth.
Various Answers
What level of racism is “differential access to the goods, services, and opportunities of society by race”
Institutionalized
Name a push or pull factor that led to the Great Migration.
Various answers
Which civil rights leader demanded equality at the beginning of the 20th century?
W.E.B. DuBois
What does it mean if a law is considered De Jure?
It is followed and applied "by the letter of the law"
How did President Eisenhower ensure the Little Rock 9 could enter Central High School?
Sent in the Army's 101st Airborne
This is believing negative stereotypes about your own race or ethnicity, such as thinking that Black people are less intelligent than White people
Internalized Racism
What were the three constitutional amendments put into place after the civil war?
13 - Abolition of Slavery
14 - Equal rights for all male citizens
15 - All Male Americans can vote
Which civil rights leader felt black Americans should, "cast their bucket down"?
Booker T Washington
What is an example of "de facto" voter suppression?
Poll tax or literacy test
This is the active, nonviolent refusal to obey certain laws, often used as a protest against injustice
Civil disobedience