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US History Soph
Civil Rights Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cesar Chavez | civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing |
| La Raza Unida | a former Hispanic political party centered on Chicano nationalism. It was created in 1970 and became prominent throughout Texas and Southern California. |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. |
| "Separate but equal" | On May 17, 1954, a decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case declared the “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional. |
| Thurgood Marshall | civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting |
| Civil Rights Act of 1968 | 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national . |
| Black Power Movement | r emphasized black self-reliance and self-determination more than integration. Proponents believed African Americans should secure their human rights by creating political and cultural organizations that served their interests. |
| Black Panthers | African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. |
| de facto segregation | De facto segregation was a term used during the 1960s racial integration efforts in schools, to describe a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but nevertheless school segregation continued. |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling ... |
| Freedom Riders | groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. |
| Freedom Summer | Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. |
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