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Integrated America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Emmett Till | He was a 14 year old African American boy from Chicago who was kidnapped, brutally tortured, and killed in Money Mississippi. |
| JW Milam | He was a white Mississippi farmer who kidnapped and brutally tortured Emmett Till |
| Mahammad Ali | He was a member of the Nation of Islam. He was drafted to the Vietnam war and refused to go because I said religious beliefs. He was stripped of his title. |
| Rosa Parks | She was an American civil rights activist. She refused Rodin too her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and was arrested. |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | He was an American Civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement until his assassination ion 1968. |
| Malcolm X | He was an African American revolutionary and black nationalist leader who rose from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity to a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965 |
| Elijah Mahammad | He was an American religious leader who led the Nation of Islam from 1933 until his death in 1975 |
| Bobby Seale | He is an African American revolutionary, political activist, and author. He co-founded the Marxist–Leninist and Black power political organization the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. |
| Huey Newton | He was an African American revolutionary and political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale |
| George Wallace | He was an American politician and lawyer who was the 45th and longest-serving governor of Alabama, and the longest-serving governor from the Democratic Party. |
| Dwight Eisenhower | He was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. |
| ”Bull” Conner | He was an American politician who was Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. A lifelong member of the Democratic Party, he strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. |
| Brown v. Board | It was a Supreme Court case that unanimously ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional |
| Black Panthers | It was a revolutionary, socialist organization founded in Oakland, California, in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale to combat police brutality against African Americans. |
| Thurgood Marshall | He was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. |
| John F. Kennedy | He was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president at 43 years. |
| Little Rock 9 | They were nine African American students who, in September 1957, bravely desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas |
| In which state did the Montgomery Bus Boycott occur? | Alabama |
| Which president ordered the National Guard to pepper students in Arkansas during school integration? | Dwight Eisenhower |
| What was the “March on Washington”? | It was so advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans |
| Where did the first “sit-ins” occur? | In the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina |
| What charge were the participants of sit-ins often arrested on? | Trespassing, disorderly conduct, or disturbing the peace |
| Who criticized Dr. King, which prompted him to write “Letter from Birmingham Jail”? | The King |
| In what city did Dr. King have children march in protest? | Birmingham, Alabama |
| How many people died in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing? | 4, 10 year old girls |
| Where did Malcom X visit that changed his views on race? | Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Who delivered the “Message to the Grassroots” speech? | Malcolm X |
| Who assassinated Malcom X? | A member of the Nation of Islam, Thomas Hagan. |
| Where did the worst race riots occur? | Chicago |
| What were the Freedom Rides? | They were interracial, nonviolent civil rights campaigns where activists rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern U.S. to challenge the non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings banning segregated public transportation |
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