1960s Study Guide Flashcards
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
to segregate schools.
After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to
deny someone of a job because of their race.
Court case that created “Separate-but-equal” doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.
Sit-ins
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Lyndon B. Johnson
The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Person who was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black nationalist leader who for awhile was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam; talked about black freedom “by any means necessary;” was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in NYC by Nation of Islam members
Malcolm X
Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?
Rosa Parks
Wrote “I Have a Dream” and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1964, Martin received the _____________ for peace.
Nobel Prize
Martin Luther King Day is celebrated on the 3rd Monday in _______________.
January
People who protest to call attention to a cause, like civil rights
activist
Keeping things or people separate
segregation
