Lesson 1: "The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape"

Question 1

What is La Raza Unida?

Answer 1

• La Raza Unida was established on January 17, 1970
• Fought for Mexican American’s rights
• The United Race

Question 2

NAACP

Answer 2

National Association for Advancement of Colored People

Question 3

Integrate

Answer 3

African Americans and white people together

Question 4

Segregated {separate}

Answer 4

African Americans and white people kept apart

Question 5

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 5

Made the “separate but equal” doctrine; meaning allowed segregate as long as they have equal things

Question 6

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 6

NAACP attorney who led courtroom battles against segregation

Question 7

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 7

Supreme Court Case ruled that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional

Question 8

Little Rock Nine

Answer 8

The first black students to integrate an Arkansas high school

Question 9

Rosa Parks

Answer 9

African-American woman who refused to give her seat on a public bus to a white man

Question 10

Sit in

Answer 10

A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave

Question 11

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Answer 11

To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the student protests formed SNCC

Question 12

Linda Brown was a 7 year old African American girl who wanted to go to the school for white children across town.

Answer 12

False {the school for white children was a few blocks away from her home}

Question 13

The ___________________ issued that segregation in schools and other public facilities was illegal in 1954.

Answer 13

Supreme Court