Chapter 21: The Civil Rights Movement Vocab

Question 1

1954 Supreme Court case in which racial segregation in public schools was outlawed

Answer 1

Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Question 2

Protest in 1955-1956 by African Americans against racial segregation in the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama

Answer 2

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 3

Process of bringing people of different races together

Answer 3

Integration

Question 4

Between, among, or involving different races

Answer 4

Interracial

Question 5

Organization founded by pacifists in 1942 to promote racial equality through peaceful means

Answer 5

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 6

Civil rights organization that advocated nonviolent protest; formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders

Answer 6

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question 7

A peaceful way of protesting against restrictive policies

Answer 7

Nonviolent protest

Question 8

An offshoot of SCLC, a student civil rights organization founded in 1960

Answer 8

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 9

Form of protest in which protesters seat themselves and refuse to move

Answer 9

Sit-in

Question 10

1961 event organized by CORE and SNCC in which an interracial group of civil rights activists tested southern states’ compliance to the Supreme Court ban of segregation on interstate buses

Answer 10

Freedom Ride

Question 11

1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., in which protesters called for “jobs and freedom”

Answer 11

March on Washington

Question 12

A tactic in which senators prevent a vote n a measure by taking the floor and refusing to stop talking

Answer 12

Filibuster

Question 13

In the Senate, a three-fifths vote to limit debate and call for a vote on an issue

Answer 13

Cloture

Question 14

Law that made discrimination illegal in a number of arcas, incusing voting, schools, and jobs

Answer 14

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 15

Law aimed at reducing the barriers that prevented African Americans from voting, in part by increasing the federal government’s authority to register voters

Answer 15

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 16

Constitution amendment ratified in 1964 to outlaw the poll tax

Answer 16

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Question 17

Organization, also called the Black Muslims, dedicated to black separation and self-help

Answer 17

Nation of Islam

Question 18

A belief in separate identity and racial unity of the African American community

Answer 18

Black Nationalism

Question 19

African American movement seeking unity and self-reliance

Answer 19

Black Power

Question 20

Racial segregation created by law

Answer 20

De jure segregation

Question 21

Separation caused by social conditions such as poverty

Answer 21

De facto segregation