Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK's job before the Civil Rights Movement
Reverend
TRUE or FALSE: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. both believed in Black nationalism
FALSE
Non-violent
Which court case made segregation in schools illegal?
Brown v. Board of Education
When was the Civil Rights Movement? You can give a date range.
1950's-1960's
Whose legacy is honored on January 17 with a national holiday?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X's job BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement
Minister for the Nation of Islam
This group's goal was to protest segregated transportation systems...
The Freedom Riders
Which laws were established in the South to keep Black people separate from white people and erase the progress they’d made?
'Jim Crow' Laws
What is a boycott?
To refuse to buy something or to take part in something as a way of protesting.
What is the name of the strategy that Martin Luther King Jr. supported during the Civil Rights Movement?
Civil Disobedience
Who was the leader of the Illinois Black Panthers and as murdered by police with the help of someone who was working with the FBI?
Fred Hampton
Which group was launched to encourage students to get involved in the Civil Rights Movement?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
In this court case, the Supreme Court declared that facilities for Black and white people could be “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
Alabama
On August 28, 1963 this event drew more than 200,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial...
March on Washington
The Black Panther Party was founded with the purpose of protecting Black people from __________________________.
Police brutality
He was a Freedom Rider who was later elected to the United States House of Representatives...
John Lewis
Which act did President Lyndon Johnson sign into law shortly after the march from Selma to Montgomery?
Voting Rights Act
How many marches from Selma to Montgomery were PLANNED?
3
Which group was founded to unite the power of Black churches?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Define Black Nationalism
Support for unity and political self-rule for black people, especially in the form of a peaceful, separate black nation.
Four college students took a stand against segregation in this North Carolina city, when they refused to leave a lunch counter
Greensboro, North Carolina
Name the 3 laws we studied that proved to be important to the advancement of rights for all people
1. Civil Rights Act
2. Voting Rights Act
3. Fair Housing Act
On this day, more than 50 marchers were hospitalized after a violent response by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.
Bloody Sunday