Civil rights act quiz

Brown vs. 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.

Malcolm 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

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

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.

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).

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 Coordinating Committee

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