Terms
What term means to treat people unfairly or differently because of their race or ethnicity, believing that one race is superior to another?
Racism
On February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, four black NC A&T State University freshmen initiated the non-violent technique of a ______ when they requested lunch at the counter at Woolworth’s and refused to leave when denied service?
Sit-in
Who was honored/given the title by the United States Congress as "the mother of the freedom movement"?
Rosa Parks
Who were the groups of white and black civil rights activists who participated in boycotts on buses in the South?
Freedom Riders
This was an advertising campaign during the 1980s and early 1990s in the US that helped with the war on drugs?
"Just say no"
A ___________________ describes the differences in thoughts, actions, and tastes exhibited by members of younger generations versus older ones?
Generational Gap
What generation ____________ was the result of a strong postwar economy, in which Americans felt confident they would be able to support a larger number of children?
Baby boomers
After Dr.King was assassinated in 1968, who would become the new SCLC president?
Ralph Abernathy
This was a student led organization in the United States during the civil rights movement in the 1960s?
SNCC
What was used to characterize Reagan's administration’s concept that believed in stopping Communism before it could attack and enslave a country?
Regan Doctrine
What term refers to the social process in which members of different racial and ethnic groups experience fair and equal treatment within a desegregated environment?
Integration
Who killed Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, TN?
James Earl Ray
He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice?
Thurgood Marshal
Who was the African American Muslim minister and human rights activist that came to embody the black power movement?
Malcolm X
What Civil Rights activist comes up with the Black nationalism rallying slogan, “Black power.”
Stokely Carmichael
This term is a policy designed to address past and present discrimination by actively promoting opportunities for groups historically disadvantaged, such as minorities and women, in areas like employment and education?
Affirmative Action
On December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and turned over his presidential powers including control of the nuclear launch codes to what new leader?
Boris Yeltsin
This civil rights leader and NAACP's first field secretary was assassinated in Mississippi?
Medgar Evers
They believed that revolution was necessary and urged African Americans to arm themselves and prepare to force whites to grant them equal rights?
Black Panthers
This term has to deal with the majority of people, regarded as holding moderate opinions but rarely expressing them?
Silent Majority
This policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information was called?
Glasnost
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the
_________ and other efforts to end segregation?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who would be the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party?
Geraldine Ferraro
Who was the founder of the Freedom Riders?
James Farmer
Which is NOT one of the 4 simple principles of the Reaganomics?
Recovery from Depression