Chapter 18 Civil Rights Flashcards
Where was the greatest resistance to the changing rights of African Americans?
Birmingham Alabama
What 1896 Supreme Court ruling supported legalized racism
Poesy Vs Ferguson
Southern State laws that separated white and black people in public places were called?
Jim Crow Laws
Who was the first African American to play professionally in major league baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Name the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools was a violation of constitutional law
Brown vs Board of Education
What was the special significance of supreme court’s 1954 decision in the case going out of Topeka, Kansas
it was unconstitutional segregation
Who was the chief lawyer representing Linda Brown
Thurgood Marhsall
What leading United States civil rights organization and law firm fought to end segregation?
SNCC - student nonviolent coordinating Committee
What strategy did the civil rights organization and law firm to use to combat racism?1
Sit ins
Where did Eisenhower send troops to protect African Americans that were going to integrate in school?
Little Rock Arkansas
Civil Rights activist who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the united States Supreme Court decision that had outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminal serving buses that crossed state lines were called?
Freedom riders
Who was the first Air Force Veteran to attend the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
Where on June 11 1963 did president Kennedy Send federal troops to honor a court order of desegregation?
Alabama
Who was the Alabama Governor that in June 1963 physically blocked two students from enrolling?
George Wallace
Where did MLK give his I have a Dream speech?
Lincoln Memorial, Washington
The four categories the banned discrimination in employment>
- ) No discriminatory employment practices
- ) Bans segregation in public
- ) Gave justice department to bring lawsuits to schools that wouldn’t desegregate
- ) Removed voter restrictions
What was Taxed on black after 15th amendment
poll tax
which amendment ratified in 1964, outlawed the use of this tax as a precondition to voting in federal elections
24 amendment
What civil rights law banned Literacy Tests and became one of the most important processes of civil rights legislation
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Volunteer project in which college students spent their summer vacation in Mississippi, registering African Americans to vote
Freedom Summer
Kind of segregation exists through custom and practice rather than by law
De Facto
Segregation exists by law
de Jure
What movement encouraged african americans to be self reliant
Black Power
Group formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Black Panthers
