Unit 2A: The 1960s @ Home: The Civil Rights Movement Quiz Review

Rosa Parks

a civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on the bus fostering the climate for the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.

LBJ

president of the United States who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law

Earl Warren

the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who declared that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was inherently unequal

black power

a social movement that called for African American power and resistance and to help fight police brutality

Emmitt Till

14-year-old African American who was kidnapped, beaten, and brutally killed in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman

Vietnam

a long war that United States fought in from 1954 to 1975

permit

to allow or get permission to do something (e.g., engaging in a protest that might interfere with others)

KKK

Ku Klux Klan--a hate group that murdered four black girls at the 16th Street Church

casket

a coffin that typically used to bury a person after they pass away

Robert Kennedy

a Democrat who ran for president in 1968 supporting civil rights, but was killed in 1968

Montgomery Bus Boycott

This lasted 381 days - it was a refusal to ride the bus until it was desegregated

March on Washington

following this protest, Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech

sit-ins

a form of boycott where people would wait to be served in segregated restaurants:

Freedom Rides

Riding buses from the North to the South to segregated towns to promote Civil Rights:

literacy tests

a test used to prohibit black people from voting

Voting Rights Act of 1965

an act that prohibits unfair practices to prevent African Americans from voting

Malcolm X

a leader of a militant civil rights group

Black Panthers

an African American group created in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton