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Civil Rts 50s and 60
Civil Rights in the 1950s and 1960s
Question | Answer |
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Upheld the use of the commerce clause as the basis for civil rights legislation by the federal govt | Heart of Atlanta v. US |
Allowed the federal govt. to register voters where literacy tests and other restrictions on blacks voting had been in effect before Nov., 1964 | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Location of one of the worst race riots in US history in the "long hot summer" of 1965 | Watts |
Leader who championed Black Power, calling on blacks to united and build a sense of community; originally the head of SNCC but then joined the Black Panthers | Stokely Carmichael |
College students take over a lunch counter at Woolworth's | Greensboro sit-ins |
Ruled that numerical quotas for affirmative action were unconstitutional | Bakke v. University of California at Davis |
Outlawed the use of a poll tax to keep blacks from voting in federal elections | Twenty-Fourth Amendment |
Organization that MLK helped to found to lead marches to protest racial discrimination | SCLC |
250,000 Americans marched to protest segregation to press Congress to pass the civil rights bill | March on Washington |
Groups of students protest segregation on interstate buses in the Deep South | Freedom rides |
Issued a report saying that America is moving toward two societies,...separate and unequal | Kerner Commission |
Three volunteers murdered by KKK when they tried to lead a voter registration in the South | Freedom Summer of 1964 |
Ruled that arbitrarily drawn electoral districts violate constitutional rights | Baker v. Carr |
Prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, forbade employers and unions from discriminating against minorities; and authorized the Attorney General to intervene on behalf of victims of discrimination | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Established principle of "one man, one vote" and ended overrepresentation of rural districts | Wesberry v. Sanders |
Leader of the Nation of Islam who called for the formation of an independent, all-black nation within the US | Elijah Muhammed |
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and said that segregated schools were inherently unequal | Brown v. BOE |
Eisenhower ordered out the National Guard to order the admission of black students in this crisis | Desegregation of Central High School (Little Rock) |
Founders of the SCLC | Ralph Abernathy and MLK |
Site of worst race riots in American history in "long, hot summer" of 1967 | Detroit |
Imprisoned for robbery, he bacame a Black Muslim, preaching black separatism and racial pride; Split from the Nation of Islam; assassinated | Malcolm X |
Founders of the Black Panthers | Huey Newton and Bobby Seale |
Militant organization that preached pride in African-American culture and black separtism as well as community involvement | Black Panthers |
Protested segregation in public buses; launched MLK as the leader of the civil rights movment | Montgomery bus boycott |
MLK led a march to this city to start registering black voters; met with violence that was shown on TV and swayed public opinion | Selma |