Founded in 1909, the ______________________ had supported court cases intended to overturn segregation.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
100
Student who was denied access to the neighborhood white school and was forced to walk across town to attend the black school.
Linda Brown
100
Indian leader who taught peaceful protest by encouraging his followers to disobey unjust laws
Mohandas Gandhi
100
Term with many meanings, but interpreted by many to mean that physical self-defense and violence were acceptable in defense of one's freedom.
Black Power
100
Fee paid in order to vote
Poll tax
200
The landmark Supreme Court case of _________v.__________ in 1896 declared segregation to be constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
200
African American attorney who fought to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson. He worked with the NAACP on Brown v. Board of Education among many other segregation cases.
Thurgood Marshall
200
After seeing the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, MLK and other ministers formed the ____________________ in 1957.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
200
Leader of SNCC in 1966 who interpreted Black Power to mean that African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle.
Stokely Carmichael
200
DAILY DOUBLE!! In Congress, when a small group of of senators take turns speaking and refuse to stop the debate and allow a bill to become a law.
Filibuster
300
The _____________ Laws legally segregated buses, trains, schools, parks, swimming pools, restaurants, and other public facilities particularly in the Redneck South.
Jim Crow
300
26 year old pastor who used the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi in an attempt to bring an end to segregation.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
300
Teams of whites and blacks that traveled in the South to draw attention to the South's refusal to integrate bus terminals.
Freedom Riders
300
Most well known leader of the violent side of the Civil Rights movement.
Malcolm X
300
1965 riot that destroyed $45 million in property and left 34 people dead and 900 injured.
The Watts Riot
400
Form of protest first used by union workers in the 1930s, now being used by the Congress of Racial Equality.
Sit-ins
400
In Montgomery, Alabama ________________ refused to sit in the rear of the bus, thus challenging segregation on public transportation.
Rosa Parks
400
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators of all races went to see MLK speak at the ___________________ and heard him deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech.
March on Washington
400
Violent organization founded in 1966 in Oakland California by Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver.
Black Panthers
400
The brutal attack in Selma where 200 state troopers and deputized citizens beat Civil Rights protesters in full view of TV cameras is now referred to as __________________.
Bloody Sunday
500
DAILY DOUBLE!! Segregation by custom and tradition
de facto segregation
500
African American student who applied for a transfer to the University of Mississippi only to be denied admission by governor Ross Barnett when he arrived at the admissions office.
James Meredith
500
Ella Baker urged students at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC to create their own student organization instead of joining the NAACP or the SCLC. What was the name of the organization?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
500
1967 best selling book by Eldridge Cleaver advocating drugs, rape, and violence.
Soul on Ice
500
After 87 days of filibuster, the most comprehensive civil rights law ever enacted by Congress was signed by President Johnson on July 2, 1964 and is his greatest legacy.