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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Racial Violence
Taking a Stand
Laws
100
Separation of groups
What is the definition of segregation?
100
lower ranking person
What is the definition of inferior?
100
The Chicago teen who was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman
Who is Emmitt Till
100
Refused to give up her seat on a bus
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
Laws that established separate facilities for whites and blacks
What is the Jim Crow Laws?
200
to abstain from buying or using something as a form of protest
What is the definition of boycott?
200
Supremacy
What is the position of being superior?
200
4 young African American girls were killed in this city after their church was bombed
What is Birmingham?
200
MLK was inspired by the nonviolent beliefs of this man from India.
Who is Gandhi?
200
This presisdent issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
lynching
What is the illegal killing of a person accused of a crime by a mob?
300
Treating people differently through prejudice
What is discrimination?
300
This terrorist group mistreated African Americans using violence and intimidation
What is the KKK?
300
Law passed that allowed anyone the right to vote regardless of the color of their skin
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965
400
A place of business, school, store, etc
What is establishment?
400
To put up with something unpleasant
What is endure
400
List 3 tactics whites used to discriminate against African Americans?
What is bombing, intimidation, defacing property, violent attacks, threats...
400
Whites and African Americans who rode buses together in an effort to end segregation.
Who are the freedom riders?
400
This law started the integration of blacks and whites into schools
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
500
Treatment that causes shame or dishonor
What is indignities?
500
Spoil appearance
What is the definition of defaced?
500
What was the result of the trial of Emmitt Till for JW and Roy who were accused of murder?
What is not guilty?
500
The location where did MLK gave his I have a dream speech.
What is the Lincoln Memorial?
500
This law ruled that public establishments such as restaurants must serves whites AND blacks
What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act?