Unit 7: The Civil Rights Movement - Ahrens SCI History

What were "Jim Crow Laws?"

• The time period before the Civil War

• Racist laws that limited the rights of black Americans

• The number of immigrants allowed in the US

What is the NAACP?

• The name of a law that established the "Separate but equal" policy in the US

• The Baseball League for black Americans before the MLB

• A group that worked for the rights of black Americans, often through court cases

What important court case decision said public schools need to be integrated and that segregation was illegal?

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Roe v. Wade (1973)

What does boycott mean?

• Communism

• Voting illegally

• Refusing to give money to or refusing to support something

5. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides were protests about...

• Voting

• The rights of black Americans to travel freely in the South

• Women's Rights

Who is the Civil Rights leader that was a baptist minister, who preached non-violence, and led peaceful protests from 1955 to 1968?

• Stokely Carmichael

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Why did many protesters remain peaceful and use non-violence when protesting?

• Because the were afraid of getting hurt and going to jail

• To show the ugly and violent racism in the US, and to avoid starting riots

What was a major federal law that tried to end certain types of discrimination and racism?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Warsaw Pact

• Plessy v. Ferguson

How were black Americans STOPPED from voting in the South before 1965?

• They weren't stopped from voting

• Literacy/reading tests, poll taxes($$$), violence

• No one was allowed to vote

Who was the Civil Rights leader that believed in achieving rights through “any means necessary” and was NOT against violence?

• Malcolm X

• Stokely Carmichael

• Rosa Parks