Vocabulary

Question 1

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 1

The NAACP attorneys (Thurgood Marshall) who went on to become Supreme Court Justice

Question 2

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 2

In the early 1950’s five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C., came together under the title of “Brown v. Board of Education”

Question 3

Little Rock Nine

Answer 3

It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High School. These students became known as the Little Rock Nine

Question 4

Rosa Parks

Answer 4

On December 1, 1955 a seamstress and NAACP worker named Rosa Parks boarded a bus and sat in the front row of the section reserved for Black Passengers. When the bus became full, the driver told Parks and three others to give up their seats to white passengers, Parks refused.

Question 5

Montgomery bus Boycott

Answer 5

In this program thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses

Question 6

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 6

A young Baptist Minister that had a reputation as a powerful speaker whose words could motivate and inspire listeners.

Question 7

Sit-in

Answer 7

A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave

Question 8

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

Answer 8

To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the students protect formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the spring of 1960

Question 9

John F. Kennedy

Answer 9

He was the youngest person ever elected president of the United States.

Question 10

Freedom Rides

Answer 10

To accomplish this, CORE organized a series of protests called the freedom rides in which black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South.

Question 11

March on Washington

Answer 11

A massive demonstration for civil rights

Question 12

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 12

He was the Vice President for Kennedy that took over for him in 1963

Question 13

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 13

The act banned segregation in public places it also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin

Question 14

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 14

Which Johnson signed into law in August. This law gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans’ voting rights

Question 15

Great Society

Answer 15

Program of domestic reforms that he called the Great Society

Question 16

Black Power

Answer 16

Which called for African American independence

Question 17

Malcom X

Answer 17

He traveled to the Muslim holy city of Mecca where he met Muslims of many races. In 1965 he broke with the Nation of Islam an was killed by three of its members

Question 18

Cesar Chavez

Answer 18

One of the many Hispanic Americans who worked to improve conditions

Question 19

United Farm Workers

Answer 19

This Union was committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farm workers- those who move seasonally from farm to farm for work

Question 20

Betty Friedan

Answer 20

Described the dissatisfaction some women felt with their traditional roles of wife, mother, and homemaker

Question 21

National organization for women

Answer 21

To fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women

Question 22

Shirley Chisholm

Answer 22

Elected to represent in the House the first African American women elected

Question 23

Equal right amendment

Answer 23

Would outlaw all discrimination based on sex

Question 24

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 24

An activist the founded the STOP ERA

Question 25

American Indian Movement

Answer 25

Founded in 1968 to fight for Native American Rights

Question 26

Disabled in Action

Answer 26

To make people aware of challenges facing people with disabilities