Civil Rights: Actions & Groups
This SNCC strategy emphasized refusing to obey unjust local laws without using violence, as described in the provided SNCC Statement of Purpose.
What is civil disobedience?
The phrase “the fierce urgency of now” appears in which famous 1963 speech by MLK?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech?
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy responded to Soviet missiles in Cuba by taking this action
What is establishing a naval blockade?
Which organization’s 1966 Statement of Purpose declared it would confront discrimination against women in many fields and is associated with the 1960s women’s rights movement?
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
Name the 1961 protest in which activists rode interstate buses to challenge segregation on public transportation
What are the Freedom Rides?
The 1954 Supreme Court case that required equal access to public school education was
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Which U.S. action was intended to remove Fidel Castro from power but failed and occurred before JFK’s handling of the missile crisis?
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
César Chávez askED supporters to take what action to support farm workers’ rights during UFW campaigns?
What is to avoid buying table grapes (boycott) and support the strike?
These 1961 sit-ins at lunch counters were a form of protest started by students in which southern city in 1960 that sparked similar actions nationwide.
What is Greensboro, North Carolina?
The 1966 Supreme Court decision that more clearly defined a suspect’s right to counsel and police procedure
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Which domestic policy agenda of Lyndon B. Johnson aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice and created programs like Medicare/Medicaid and the Elementary & Secondary Education Act?
What is the Great Society?
Which 1960s leader is quoted as arguing “We want freedom now” and rejecting nonviolence as the only strategy?
Who is Malcolm X?
Identify the student-run organization whose volunteers organized voter registration and community work in Mississippi.
What is SNCC / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
Which Warren Court ruling ensured that states must provide defense attorneys to defendants who cannot afford one?
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
After JFK’s assassination, LBJ urged Congress to pass this landmark law to honor Kennedy’s goals and to address discrimination in public accommodations and employment
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Name one reason Chicano activists organized the 1968 Los Angeles mass school walkouts
What is to protest unequal treatment of Mexican American students in the Los Angeles school system?
List two concrete ways SNCC helped expand civil rights in the South.
What are organizing voter registration campaigns and encouraging local African Americans to organize and press for equality?
Explain the primary effect of the cluster of Warren Court rulings (Brown, Gideon, Escobedo, Loving, In re Gault) on civil rights and liberties.
What is the expansion and federal protection of individual civil rights and due process?
Based on the LBJ quotation about “war against poverty,” identify one major policy approach LBJ proposed to reduce poverty
What is increasing federal spending on anti-poverty programs and programs such as job training/community action and education initiatives?
Explain two major risks that volunteers (both Black and white) faced while doing voter-registration and civil-rights work in Mississippi.
What are threats and acts of violence including beatings, shootings, bombings, and harassment (e.g., hate literature, armed followings), and the risk of disappearance or murder of activists?