The Civil Rights Movement

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 do

• it increased African American voting in the south by creating a Civil Rights Division U.S. Justice Department

• ended discrimination in all public places

• ended poll taxes and literacy tests in all states

• elected governor of Georgia in 1966; staunch segregationists.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

• elected governor of Georgia in 1966; staunch segregationists.

• banned all segregation in public schools (Thurgood Marshall served as the lawyer and was later appointed as the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice)

• ended discrimination in all public places

• ended poll taxes and literacy tests in all states

What was "a militant African American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto"? Answer is two words.

• Black Panthers

• Black Knights

• Black Eagles

• Black Lions

Southern Pastor who founded the SCLC with Ralph Abernathy?

What was "a form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served"?

What were "laws enacted by southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities"? Fill in the blank: __ laws.

Laws that were in place in the South that led to the Civil Rights Movement?

• Jim Crow

• Jim Bird

• Jon Snow

• Dr. King

What was "a 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional"?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

• Roe v Wade

• Marbury v Madison

1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendent
• 15th Amendment

What methods of protest did Dr. King adopt from Gandhi?

• Violent

• Sit-Ins

• Busing

• Nonviolent