Civil Rights Era Review

@ SAG - Sullivan - '24 US History Honors

1896 Supreme court case allowed Segregation, by stating that as long as it "separate but equal" it was acceptable

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Southern Segregation laws had different names like the "Black Codes" or

Jim Crow Laws

“..in public education, ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are unequal" was from

Brown vs. Board of Education

Broke the color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers and become the first black player in the Major Leagues

Jackie Robinson

Influenced by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in peaceful protests to unjust laws known as

civil disobedience

What event made Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a national leader?

the Montgomery bus boycott

What overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal”?

Brown v Board of Education

the Freedom Riders.

Protesters who helped enforce a federal ban on segregation in buses and interstate travel facilities

To support JFK’s civil rights bill, civil rights leaders called on a

March on Washington

Civil rights leaders targeted Birmingham in 1963 because the city

was highly segregated.

Who wrote the famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The success at Birmingham proved the effectiveness of

nonviolent protests.

Treatment of demonstrators by the Birmingham police

angered most Americans.

What was the highlight of the March on Washington?

MLK Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech

President Johnson’s two civil rights laws are considered to be

landmarks in American history.

What banned discrimination in public places based on race, color, religion, sex or natl origin?

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Whose actions led to the Montgomery bus boycotts, protesting segregation of public busses?

Rosa Parks

Chicago Black teen killed in MS. His murderers confessed, but were acquitted by all-white jury

Emmet Till

Jackie Robinson wore this number, which is forever retired in Baseball

42