Civil Rights Unit

Who was the Civil Rights leader who preached nonviolence and moved throughout the country motivating African Americans to stand up for themselves?

• John Lewis

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Stokely Carmichael

banned discrimination in public accommodations, banned discrimination in employment

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Roe v. Wade

A movement which called for violent actions for African Americans to gain self-dependence

• Sit-Ins

• SCLC

• Black Muslims

• Black Power

(a)   suspended literacy tests and other devices used to exclude voters

What major Supreme Court case challenged segregation in public schools?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v. Board

• Bailey v. Patterson

followed Rosa Parks' arrest, Blacks didn't take buses in Montgomery for a year until the Supreme Court ended segregation on buses

(a)  

were a form of protest at diners, used to oppose segregation, and often provoked heckling and violence from those opposed to their message.

(a)  

Written by MLK while in a jail in Birmingham, AL where he was arrested for non-violent demonstrations. The letters were in response to eight white religious leaders of the south who had "concerns" and "caution" about the Civil Rights Movement

• Birmingham Letters

• I Have a Dream speech

• I've Been to the Mountaintop speech

• Letter to the American Christians

The use of peaceful means to protest; refusing to fight back. Civil Rights leaders adopted these tactics from Ghandi.

(a)  

Incident where President Eisenhower sent federal troops to allow black students into the high school. This event led to government intervention with desegregation

(a)