Civil Rights Vocabulary

Question 1

Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 1

Refusal to use bus service in Montgomery Alabama

Question 2

Little Rock nine

Answer 2

Nine highly intelligent students were sent to attend classes at a all-white school in Little Rock Arkansas

Question 3

Civil disobedience

Answer 3

Disobeying a law because of different beliefs

Question 4

Southern Christian leadership conference

Answer 4

Organization to achieve political and social goals through nonviolent resistance

Question 5

SNCC

Answer 5

Civil rights organization by college students who organized sit-in’s and nonviolent protest

Question 6

Freedom riders

Answer 6

Blacks and whites Road interstate buses together to test southern states

Question 7

March on Washington

Answer 7

1963 protest. People protested in the nation’s capital for civil rights legislation

Question 8

Civil rights act of 1964

Answer 8

Act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origins

Question 9

Freedom summer

Answer 9

1964 campaign to register black voters in Mississippi

Question 10

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 10

Act of outlawing tactics to deny African-Americans the right to vote

Question 11

Black power

Answer 11

The power for African-Americans to have economic and political power

Question 12

Black panther party

Answer 12

A group that demanded economic and political rights and was prepared to take violent action

Question 13

Civil rights act of 1968

Answer 13

A law that included a ban on discrimination in the sale, retail, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and sex

Question 14

Brown versus Board of Education

Answer 14

Decision to desegregate schools