Civil Rights Movement I

Policy that calls on employers & schools to actively seek to increase the number of minorities

Worked in the Courts to help advance Civil Rights for minorities.

Many restaurants were successfully integrated by

His call for "Black Power" was in contrast to King's ideology.

Black nationalist organization that focused on monitoring police, and community outreach.

This act signed by LBJ ended poll taxes, literacy tests, and limited gerrymandering.

One form of Civil Disobedience used by protesters

Was the concept of restrictive housing covenants de facto or de jure?

Dr. Martin Luther King was well known for protests that used

If you compare MLK Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X you would conclude that each leader

General term for segregation laws in the South.

De jure segregation is based on

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban?

Leader who focused more on unity rather than separation after a religious trip to Mecca.

Which Doctrine related to public education was OVERTURNED by Brown v. Board of Education?

1977 Supreme Court case ruled that race COULD be considered in college admissions.

The fight to desegregate Interstate Busses

SNCC membership was primarily what type of people?

Most segregation in Northern States (like Iowa), was

The fact that more African-Americans were elected to office after 1964 is due to

Group that gained national attention for helping to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

____ were a place that _____ challenged a federal ban on segregation for interstate travel.

President who signed Executive Order 9981 desegregating the armed forces.

Which of the following were ways African Americans were kept from voting?

Political activists who started the Black Panther Party

This American city was nicknamed "Bombingham" for a series of unsolved bombings.

What did the Kerner Commission on the causes of 1960's Urban Riots report?

Amendment that made slavery illegal

Brown v. Board of Education was a Supreme Court case that

Who was NOT associated with the Black Power Movement?

First African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was successful mainly because it pressured the city _______.

SNCC's plan for a massive voter registration drive in Mississippi was called

When Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock Arkansas, he was

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibit?

1896 Supreme Court decision that made segregation legal.

Unjust TREATMENT based on factors like age, sex, or race.