Vocab Terms
This government program provides health insurance for Americans who are 65 years & older
What is Medicare?
This case rules that segregation is legal as long as facilities for blacks & whites are “separate but equal”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This man is the face of the Civil Rights Movement, and states that blacks should nonviolently protest against segregation & oppression
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This failed military plan involved using 1400 Cuban immigrants to overthrow Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
What is the Space Race?
This Act, passed in 1965, outlaws election officials from using discriminatory literacy tests
What is the Voting Right Act?
This case ruled that Plessy v. Ferguson was in direct violation with the Constitution. A second ruling ordered desegregation of schools "With all deliberate speed"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This former marine is widely accepted as JFK's assassin
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This billion-dollar program implemented by LBJ, nearly cuts the people living in poverty in the US in half from 1960-1970
What is the War on Poverty?
This election pitted JFK and Richard Nixon against each other in what year?
What is 1960?
This form of protest was the most popular choice among civil rights activists
What are sit-ins?
This court overturned Virgina's anti-miscegenation laws, allowing interracial couples to marry
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This Cuban revolutionary successfully overthrows his government and becomes president of Cuba for several decades
Who is Fidel Castro?
This one day event was in response to Rosa Parks' arrest
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This two week stretch in 1962 involved intense negotiations between the US, Cuba and the Soviet Union while on the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
MLK writes this while imprisoned, explaining why civil rights leaders are done waiting for reform
What is "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
This case states that the 4th Amendment requires the police to obtain specific warrants based on probable cause
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
These children are prevented from integrating into Central high school by Arkansas governor Orville Faubus
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
MLK gives this speech that holds the audience spellbound as King describes his dream of a colorblind society “when all of God's children” will be free & equal
What is the "I have a dream" speech?
This event occurs on August 28, 1963 & nearly 200,000 demonstrators of all ages, classes & religious backgrounds
What is the March on Washington?
segregation by custom or tradition, is a reality for blacks living in the North, although they are allowed to vote
What is De Facto Segregation?
This case establishes the legal principle of "one man, one vote” & African American participation in politics skyrockets in the Deep South
What is Reynolds v Sims?
This NAACP leader helps local leaders carefully craft & implement targeted campaigns against lynching, for job training & for black teachers to get equal pay
Who is Ella Baker?
This event is a 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi sponsored by civil rights organizations, including CORE & the SNCC
What is Freedom Summer?
This event, captured by TV cameras, displayed a violent response to protestors by state troopers using whips, nightsticks and tear gas
What is Bloody Sunday?