Civil Rights

Question 1

Civil Rights Movement

Answer 1

organized effort by black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law. It began in the late 1940s and ended in the late 1960s.

Question 2

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 2

State laws in the South that legalized segregation

Question 3

Segregation

Answer 3

Racial segregation is the systemic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races.

Question 4

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 4

A literary and artistic movement in the 1920s in which African Americans brought their culture to the North.

Question 5

Great Migration

Answer 5

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.

Question 6

NAACP

Answer 6

Group fighting for African American rights.

Question 7

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 7

1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal”.

Question 8

13th Amendment

Answer 8

officially prohibited slavery in the U.S

Question 9

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 9

a landmark case where the courts decide that the public schools were to be integrated