Question | Answer |
Origins of segregation | Plessy v Ferguson "separate but equal" - Jim crow laws |
What is CORE | congress of racial equality |
Brown v board of ed. Topeka | Thur good Marshall |
Montgomery bus boycott | Rosa parks |
MLK | Draws on philosophy of ghandi |
Eisenhower calling federal troops | says for all students to stay |
Sit ins | "peaceful resistance" to protest the segregation in dinners,stores,hotels and swimming pools |
Jessie Jackson | Student leader |
Marion barry | Student leader |
SNCC | Student Nonviolent coordination comtte |
Freedom Riders | Beaten and busses bombed |
"Bull"Conner | Cop in Birmingham and in KKK |
Presidential responds to what? | segregation |
James mereith | applies at the U of Mississippi governor blocks entry |
legislative responds to segregation | civil rights act of 1964 and voting rights act of 1965 |
martin Luther king Jr | march on Washington 1963 "I have a dream" and Selma march "bloody sunday" |
Racism | still evident despite gain |
watts los angeles | riots in the city |
Detroit chicgo | riots in the city |
kerner commission | blames problems on white society and racism |
Stokley Carmichael | New leader of SNCC |
Malcolm X | The X symbol is a name for African ancestors |
Black panthers created by | eldridge cleaver bobby seals Huey newton |