Name that person!
He was a civil rights activist known for the "I Have a Dream Speech" and his actions in Birmingham and Montgomery
Who is MLK?
This court case integrated the schools
What is Brown v. Board?
Name the speech:
___________ that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
What is "I Have a Dream?"
King used this method as a deliberate display of breaking laws as a form of protest
What is "Civil Disobedience?"
This is segregation enforced by law
What is "De Jure" segregation?
She refused to give up her seat on the bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
Dr. King said we shouldn't break these types of laws but we should break these types instead (Name both)
What is just and unjust laws?
Name this writing: Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.
What is Letter from Birmingham Jail?
This was the event in which Dr. King got his start
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
This is the denial of equal housing opportunities based on race, often enforced by redlining and restrictive covenants.
what is "housing discrimination?"
He is the first Black Baseball player to play in the Major Leagues
Who is Jackie Robinson?
These were the name of the laws that enforced segregation in the south
What is Jim Crow Laws?
Name this speech: This is why I say ______________. It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. [applause] America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody, oh yes they are. They have never had a bloodless revolution. Or a nonviolent revolution. That don't happen even in Hollywood [laughter] You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy. And you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the 10 system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
What is The Ballot or the Bullet?
This was the mass movement of people into new communities outside of cities, often excluding minorities
What is suburbanization?
This was used to disenfranchised black voters from primary elections
What is "White Primary?"
He was brutally murdered at 14 years old, his death who spark the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This was the major achievement that came from the efforts of the Freedom Summer
What is the "Voting Rights Act?"
Name this event: DOGS AND HOSES REPULSE AFRICAN AMERICANS AT _________; 3 Students Bitten in Second Day of Demonstrations Against Segregation 250 MARCHERS SEIZED Robert Kennedy Fears Rise in Turmoil--Dr. King Says Protests Will Be Pressed Marchers Are Dispersed DOGS AND HOSES REPULSE NEGROES New Meetings Rumored Water Is Turned On
What is the Birmingham Campaign?
This was the practice of denying housing loans based on the race makeup of a neighborhood
What is redlining?
This is the Psychological study showing the effects of segregation on Black children
What is "The Doll Test?"
He was the first black student admitted to the University of Mississippi
Who is James Meredith?
This court case implemented "Separation but equal" in American society
What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
Name this event: Arkansas Troops Bar African American Pupils; Governor Defiant
What is Little Rock Nine?
This was the name of the postwar period of economic growth in the United States
What is the affluent society?
This is manipulating voting district boundaries to favor one party or group.
What is "Gerrymandering?"