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M15 Civil RIghts
American History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This Court Case in 1896 stated that separate but equal laws did not violate the 14th Amendment. | Plessy v.s Ferguson |
| Laws that aimed at separating races. | Jim Crow Laws |
| This court case in 1954 ruled segregated schools violated the 14th Amendment 's Equal Protection Clause. | Brown v.s Board of Education |
| Group of 9 African American students enrolled in Central High in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas | Crisis at Little Rock Central High |
| A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. | Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| December 1, 1955: She was arrested for refusing to give her seat up . | Rosa Parks |
| American Baptist minister and activist who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans | NAACP |
| civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement | Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina. | sit-ins |
| On February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a legendary moment, but it was. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. | Greensboro Four |
| An angry mob of about 400 surrounded the school that day, 15 year old who tried to enter the school, while soldiers of the National Guard, under orders from Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, stepped in her way to prevent her from entering. | Elizabeth Eckford |
| This person placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in 1,000 paratroopers into Little Rock to assist in the integration of the Little Rock Nine. | President Eisenhower |
| 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 Riders |
| The first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government | James Meredith |
| Birmingham Police Commissioner used his administrative authority over the police and fire departments to ensure that Birmingham remained, as Martin Luther King described it, “the most segregated city in America” | Bull Connor |
| fought against cruel Jim Crow laws, protested segregation in education, and launched an investigation into the Emmett Till lynching. In addition to playing a role in the civil rights movement, he served as the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi. | Medgar Evers |
| August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 people converged on the nation's capital. Major event was the MLK, "Dream Speech". | March on Washington |
| This prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. | Civil Rights Act 1964 |
| a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. | Freedom Summer |
| This eliminated literacy tests. | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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