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Leaders
Courts and Laws
Movement Events
Vocabulary
Taking a stand
100
Young African American pastor chosen to head up the Montgomery Buss Boycott and later became the leading spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
100
Supreme Court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
100
Civil rights organization started by college students.
What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
100
A protest against something by refusal to buy or use it.
What is boycott
100
Woman who helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and was arrested.
Who is Rosa Parks
200
African American civil rights leader and spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
Who is Malcom X
200
Law that outlawed racial discrimination
What is Civil Rights Act 1964
200
Name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks
What is Freedom Summer
200
Protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters.
What is a sit-in
200
Prominent voting rights activist who led the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer
300
African American lawyer for the NAACP who led the legal challenge against segregation.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
Federal law that struck down laws intended to keep blacks from voting
What is Voting Rights Act 1965
300
Segregation enforced by law
What is de jure segregation
300
To unify or to open up to all races.
What is integration
300
Civil rights organization headed up by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
400
Group headed up by Elijah Mohammad
What is Nation of Islam
400
Law that banned discrimination in housing
What is Civil Rights of 1968
400
Movement that stressed black pride and independence
What is Black Power
400
Program aimed at hiring or including minorities through preferential treatment and selection.
What is affirmative action
400
African American group founded to combat police brutality.
What is Black Panthers
500
Leader of the Black Power Movement.
Who is Stokely Charmichael
500
The act of regarding someone as different due to various features, including race.
What is de facto segregation
500
This group created by President Johnson reported on race relations in America
What is Kerner Commission
500
Segregation by custom or practice
What is discrimination
500
First African American who won enrollment to the all white University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith