AMERICAN HISTORY-Civil Rights Quiz

This is a Knowt to hel you study for your Civil Rights Quiz in American History!

Brown v. Board of Education

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

Thurgood Marshall

American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.

Brown v. Board of Education

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

Thurgood Marshall

American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. War on Poverty with his Great Society.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sent in the US Army to help escort the Little Rock Nine to Central High School

Little Rock Nine

Courageous African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations.

Malcom X

Charismatic leader of civil rights. Advocated for African Americans to fight for their rights by any means necessary.

Emmett Till

His death was the pivotal moment of the Civil Rights Movement.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city buses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Created because of the March on Washington.

Mississippi Freedom Summer

Fanny Lou Hamer led thousands of black and white students went into the South to register voters. Three of these people, Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman, disappeared.

Fannie Lou Hamer

A SNCC organizer and former sharecropper helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. *She gave back to the poor

Medgar Evers

Director of the NAACP in Mississippi and a lawyer, he was murdered in his driveway by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Freedom Riders

Thousands of young African American students traveled over the interstate highways across the country to integrate public spaces. This movement caused several riots with white mobs attacking the protesters and even bombing their buses.

March on Washington

At the Lincoln Memorial, over 250,000 protesters gathered to sing songs, give speeches and celebrate nonviolent protests. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. delievered his “I Have a Dream” speech and pushed President Johnson to create the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Birmingham Protests

Nonviolent marches and boycotts against segregation faced violent actions against firehoses and police dogs.

Selma to Montgomery March

This march was to protest against African Americans Voting Rights and was led by John Lewis and the SNCC. The protestors were harmed by the police on Bloody Sunday but were successful in getting the Voting Rights Bill of 1965.

Voting Rights Act

Outlawed discrimination in voting like literacy tests and grandfather clauses

Stokely Carmichael

Head of the SNCC believer in Black Power.

Johnnie Carr

Friend of Rosa Parks;helped in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as a driver.

Bayard Rustin

One of Martin Luther King's aids though most of his involvement in the movement. He was very involved in the planning of the March on Washington (1963). *Very organized

John Lewis

Student leader of SNCC who organized sit-ins, spoke in Washington, & marched in Selma.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

SCLC, MLK Jr.’s group that preached nonviolence and focused on marches, boycotts, and sit ins.

Student Nonviolent Coordianting Committee

SNCC, students who worked to integrate buses and register people to vote in the South.