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Civil Rights
Mrs. Brown's Civil Rights
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An aggressive black militant group that expressed pride in African American culture. | Black Panthers |
| A Civil Rights leader who believed violence should be met with violence. | Malcolm X |
| A Civil Rights leader who believed in nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Important court case that marked the end of legal segregation in public schools - overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. | Brown v. Board of Education |
| An early Civil Rights group that helped African Americans fight for equality - Started by W.E.B. DuBois. | NAACP |
| The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee waged some of the more powerful campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement such as the Sit-Ins. | SNCC |
| A court case that ruled “Separate but Equal” was constitutional. | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Southern laws that enforced segregation, kept African Americans from being equal and voting. | Jim Crow Laws |
| Granted African American men the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude. | 15th Amendment |
| The Southern Christian Leadership Conference helped coordinate the March on Washington along with other civil rights campaigns. | SCLC |
| Enforced separation of racial groups. | Segregation |
| The ending of a policy of segregation, putting races together. | Desegregation |
| All people born in the United States are citizens and have equal protection under the law. | 14th Amendment |
| Abolished the institute of slavery. | 13th Amendment |
| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who helped to rule in favor of Civil Rights. | Earl Warren |
| If the government passed an unjust law, people should oppose it with non-violent tactics such as peaceful marches, boycotts, and demonstrations. | Civil Disobedience |
| A major turning point in history when many minority groups organized and fought for their equality. | Civil Rights Movement |
| Organized by CORE, African Americans and whites rode through the south together on buses to protest bus segregation. | Freedom Rides |
| A lawyer for the NAACP that argued the Brown v. Education case and 1st African American Supreme Court Justice. | Thurgood Marshall |
| Makes literacy tests and poll taxes illegal. African Americans start becoming politically active | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| Hispanics painted murals in cities that represented pride in their culture. | Chicano Mural Movement |
| He fought for better pay and working conditions for migrant farm workers and helped found the National Farm Workers Association. | Cesar Chavez |
| The National Organization for Women - primary group representing the concerns of mainstream feminists. | NOW |
| Term used for the African American movement to fight for civil rights and achieve equality. | Black Power Movement |
| Began with 4 African Americans who sat at a lunch counter and refused to leave until served - a nonviolent act of protest. | Sit-Ins |
| African American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and was arrested. | Rosa Parks |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. led a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama that lasted for 11 months. | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| Martin Luther King, Jr led 250,000 people to show support for the Civil Rights Bill. Here is where he gave his “I have a dream” speech. | March on Washington |
| The Governor of Georgia who refused to serve African Americans in his whites-only restaurant. | Lester Maddox |
| A racist Governor in Alabama who blocked 2 African American students from entering the University of Alabama after desegregation. | George Wallace |
| The Governor of Arkansas who did not want to integrate Little Rock High School. | Orval Faubus |
| These southern congressmen banded together to obstruct attempts to pass federal civil rights legislation - Faubus, Maddox, and Wallace. | Southern Democrats |
| A law that says no one can be kept from participating in educational activities based on sex | Title IX |
| Ruled that Poll taxes (paying to vote) were illegal. | 24th Amendment |
| The American Indian Movement who fought for equality also called the “Red” Power Movement. | AIM |
| Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround the all-white Little Rock High School to prevent 9 African American students from entering the building. | Little Rock Crisis |
| A law that ended discrimination against women and minorities in employment. | Affirmative Action |
| Formed to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and make sure that all businesses were no longer discriminating. | Equal Employment Opportunity Committee |
| She fought alongside Cesar Chavez for farm workers and later fought for women’s rights. | Dolores Huerta |
| Wrote “The Feminine Mystique”, and started the National Organization for Women. | Betty Friedan |
| Women’s movement that engaged in peaceful protests for equality, voicing their dissatisfaction with women’s rights. | Feminist Movement |
| Prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnic origin in all places of employment doing business with the federal government. | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Said African Americans could not be kept from registering to vote. It gave federal courts the ability to register them to vote. | Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
| Congress of Racial Equality whose major accomplishment was the Freedom Rides. | CORE |
| A court case where a black man registered for law school at the University of Texas, but was denied because of race. The court granted him acceptance. | Sweatt v. Painter |
| Made it a law that people accused of a crime must be read their rights before being arrested. | Miranda v. Arizona |
| The Equal Rights Amendment would have made it where men and women were treated equally, but was not approved. | ERA |
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