Civil Rights Leaders
This Civil Rights Leader helped start the Civil Rights Movement when they refused to give up their seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks
What is a reading and writing test taken by hopeful voters during the Civil Rights Era?
literacy test
In 1896, the supreme court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated what?
That separate but equal was constitutional
Jackie Robinson
During the 1950's-1960s, this period of time is known as the height of the struggle for African Americans to gain equal rights that were guaranteed according to U.S. Law
Civil Rights Movement
This historical figure was a Baptist minister and social rights activist of the Civil Rights Movement from Atlanta, GA. He delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is a special tax that people had to pay before they could vote
Poll Tax
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education supreme court case determined that?
This militant self-defense group of African-American men and women of Black communities, who opposed the U.S. government and were heavily involved in community-based programs, such as public school lunch programs and healthcare.
Black Panthers
In 1964, this banned the poll tax, which was used to keep poor African Americans from voting for many years prior.
24th Amendment
This key figure of the Civil Rights movement was a leading member of the SNCC and was heavily involved in the 1954 "Freedom Summer" campaign to increase the amount of registered Black voters in the South.
Stokely Carmichael
What is the illegal killing of somebody, usually by hanging, by a crowd of people and without a trial.
lynching
What is known as a period of time between 1916-1970 when more than six million African Americans relocated from the south to cities of the North, Midwest, and West.
The Great Migration
This historical figure was a 14-year-old boy who was brutally lynched for allegedly flirting with a white woman during the Civil Rights era.
Emmett Till
From December 5th, 1955 - December 20th. 1956, this planned civil rights protest occurred when African Americans refused to ride city buses in order to protest segregated seating.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This Civil Rights activist was an outspoken voice of the Black Muslim faith, who challenged the non-violent approach to integration and urged his followers to defeat white supremacy by "any means necessary"
Malcom X
What is an unwritten custom or tradition and not officially recognized as the law of the land.
De Facto Segregation
This historical event occurred in May of 1921 when a white mob looted and burned the Greenwood District within Oklahoma, formerly known as "Black Wall Street"
Tulsa Race Massacre
This historical figure was the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. He was dismissed from the school after they learned that he was black.
James Meredith
On August 28th, 1963 this massive event of more than 250 thousand marchers hoped to draw attention to the continuing challenges of African Americans nearly one hundred years after emancipation occurred.
March on Washington
In 1909, this historical figure founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and urged African Americans to immediately demand all the rights that were guaranteed within the constitution of the United States.
W.E.B Du Bois
What is imposed by law and officially recognized legally as the law of the land.
De Jure Segregation
This historical event occurred in September of 1957 when a group of black students were the first to integrate into a formerly all white high school in Arkansas.
Little Rock Nine
This key figure led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7th, 1965. The marchers were met with state troopers and experienced racial violence as they aimed to become registered voters.
John Lewis
On July 26th, 1968 President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order to integrate all branches of the segregated military.
Executive Order 9981