Organizations & People
This person emphasized the idea of "token integration" and highly criticized the idea of "civil rights".
Who is Malcolm X?
In 1960, four young men sat still,
Against a lunch counter's racist will.
In silence they stood, but with courage they fought,
In North Carolina, history was taught.
Who were they, who changed the game?
What is the Greensboro Four, North Carolina ?
This case led to the destruction of Korea Town amongst some areas of South LA during the LA 92 riots.
Latasha Harlins/Rodney King
hese legally binding agreements were used in the 20th century to prevent people of certain races, especially Black Americans, from buying or occupying property in white neighborhoods.
What are racial covenants?
This case of retaliation, targeted a significant meeting place for organizers and claimed the life of 4 young girls.
What is the 16th Street Church Bombing?
While in Memphis supporting a sanitation workers’ strike, this person was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
We rode steel beasts across forbidden lines,
Tested the law, met fists and fines.
In 1961, our wheels spun for right —
Name this journey that fueled the fight.
What are the Freedom Rides
This law outlawed discriminations in public accommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This group created community programs and emphasized the idea of "all power to all people" but were seen as the " greatest threat to the internal security of the country"
Who is the Black Panther Party?
In the early 1960s, this form of protest was organized by African American activists to challenge the exclusionary practices of recreational spaces in the South. These protests, often met with violence and arrests, were inspired by the broader sit-in movement and led by groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and local activists, including those in places like St. Augustine, Florida.
What are the wade-ins?
Organized the Journey of Reconciliation but did not have much success.
CORE
We were not one color, nor one voice,
We marched and shut it down by choice.
Against old walls of knowledge white,
We fought months long to change the right.
From unity fierce, a new school rose
What is the TWLF Strike?
This law/Act was passed in 1967 in an effort to stop the Black Panther Party's armed patrolling.
What is the Mulford Act?
This event highlights the frustrations by black community after a 15 year old was shot and killed by an off duty police officer.
What is the Harlem Riot?
Who is Judge Edward Aaron?
This person demonstrated extreme opposition to civil rights protestors by pouring hydrochloric acid into a pool with demonstrators.
Who is James Brock/ Monson Motor Lodge.
In a hospital’s halls, where silence reigned,
A secret procedure, no consent explained.
At USC’s hands, the women were scarred,
A violation so deep, their voices were barred.
Through courts they fought, seeking what was lost,
What case named this wrong, at a heavy cost?
What is Madrigal v. Quilligan ?
This law was passed in response to redlining, racial covenants, and racial steering.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968/ Fair Housing Act
This bill ends forced sterilizations in California in prisons.
SB 1135 ( 2014) Gov. Gerry Brown
Which government agency was primarily responsible for surveilling and retaliating against civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Hampton, and organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Who is COINTELPRO/FBI
This person was portrayed as a "traitor" to their race for participating in civil rights and was used to shift blame away from the FBI involvement in their death.
Who is Viola Liuzzo ?
In a season hot with fear and flame,
We marched where shadows whispered our name.
Not just ballots but dignity sought,
In Mississippi’s heart, we dared to fight for what was right.
What was this summer's bold, silent cry?
What is Freedom Summer ?
What form of retaliation was often used against Black voters in the South during the era of Jim Crow laws?
Literacy tests & violence
After the single man march and James Meredith getting ambushed by a white supremacists, King, the SCLC, CORE, and SNCC continued this attempt but there was a clash of ideals between different generation of activists. What was this event?
What is the March Against Fear?
This event unfolded after the murder of Jimmy Lee Jackson resulting in many protestors getting attacked with tear gas & beat for refusing to retreat from a planned march.
What is Bloody Sunday/Selma-to- Montgomery March?