Amendments
This Amendment ensured that women could vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Members of this group staged sit-ins which successfully integrated many restaurants, theaters, and other public facilities.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This purpose of this legislative act was to end employment discrimination and desegregate public facilities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This word means to separate people by race.
What is segregation?
Governors Lester Maddox, Orval Faubus, and George Wallace all have this in common.
What is pro-segregation/anti-integration?
This Amendment guarantees that all people have equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Dr. King lead a demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama after the KKK bombed the 16th Avenue Baptist Church. He was later jailed and that resulted in this document.
What is the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
This word means to stop someone from doing something.
What is prohibit?
These two began the United Farm Workers organization to help migrant workers. They also organized a nationwide grape boycott.
Who are Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta?
This Amendment banned slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The doctrine "Separate but Equal" from the Plessy v. Ferguson court case was overturned by this case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the policy that the University of California used that was later removed because people believed it led to reverse discrimination.
What are admission quotas?
This word is a synonym for "law".
What is legislation?
This president desegregated the U.S. Military using Executive Order 9981.
Who was President Truman?
This Amendment ensures that all men have the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Teams of African Americans and whites who travelled into the South with the intention of drawing attention to the South's refusal to integrate bus terminals.
Who/What were the Freedom Riders?
Betty Friedan, who began the National Organization for Women (NOW), wrote this book about the fight for the equal rights amendment (ERA). The amendment failed to become law.
What is the Feminine Mystique?
This group used litigation (court cases) to facilitate equal rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
This militant group believed in "by any means necessary".
Who were the Black Panthers?
What is the 24th Amendment?
This event was where MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech.
What is the March on Washington?
The march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama ended in a brutal attack on protesters, later known as "Bloody Sunday." This act was the result.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This word means to find someone not guilty of a crime.
What is acquit?
This is organization was created by MLK to help lead non-violent protests through the US.
Who is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?