Civil Rights leaders
Who in 1963, gave the famous “ I have dream” speech?SS8H11b
What is Martin Luther King
This movement was a practice test for the March on Washington
What is the Albany Movement
Jim Crow laws were put into place to?SS8H11c
What is keep African Americans from getting their full equality
A religious man who preached nonvioloence for civil rights?
What is MLK JR.
What does segregation mean?SS8H11c
What is each race is kept separate from each other
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and should blacks should act in their own self defense when violence was inflicted upon them.SS8H11b
What is Malcolm X
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?SS8H11c
What is Civil Rights act of 1964
This supreme court case overturned Plessy Vs Ferguson.
What is Brown vs Board of Edu.
What is the Sibley Commission?
What does desegregation mean?SS8H11c
What is the races are not kept separated from each other
What Civil rights leader thought that segregation should end now! Blacks should not have to wait for or try to earn their equality from whites. Blacks should also have the option to have whatever type education they wanted whether it be practical or academic.SS8H11a
What is W.E.B. Du Bois
This major civil rights event was done to peer pressure legislators to create civil rights laws.
What is the March on Washington
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?SS8H11a
What is the segregation of American public schools was illegal
What terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?SS8H11c
What is the Ku Klux Klan
Sometimes it is necessary to disobey unjust laws and to work to have them changed. What statement most accurately reflects this idea?SS8H11c
What is civil disobedience
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust blacks should be morally obligated to not follow it but accept the consequences. He hoped for brotherhood for all men and the ending of segregation.SS8H11b
What is Martin Luther King
The Great Depression was hardest on blacks because?SS8H11c
What is blacks were the first to lose their jobs, and did not have financial savings to help them through the Great Depression
The main goal of the civil rights movement was to?SS8H11c
What is end segregation based on race
After starting my own student organization for civil rights I later became a senator for the state of GA.
Who is John Lewis?
What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights? SS8H11c
What is Declaration of Independence
What civil rights leader wanted blacks to work hard and earn their equality from whites. He did not believe in pushing for the ending of segregation or equal rights now. He thought blacks should focus on working hard, saving money & getting a practical education so they would be superior laborers.SS8H11b
What is Booker T Washington
Charlene Hunter and Hamilton Holmes where the first Blacks to attend this university.
What is University of Georgia?
Literacy tests, Poll Taxes & the Grandfather Clause was put into place to?SS8H11c
What is prevent African Americans from voting
I am opposed to segration in public places but appointed many Blacks to office when I became governor.
What is Lester Maddox?
What group did Martin Luther King Jr. start?
What is the SCLC