11th Grade U.S. History Chapter 21 - 1960s Civil Rights

This was a 1964 CORE & SNCC project to register as many African-Americans in the South as they could to vote.

This type of segregation is segregation by law that is eliminated by changing and repealing segregation laws.

This Alabama governor famously stated “I say, Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” in 1963.

In 1968, she became the first African-American woman to serve as a member of congress in US House of Representatives.

Sept. 1962, this Air Force veteran won a federal lawsuit allowing him to enroll at the all-white U. of Mississippi.

1960 Civil rights group founded by N. Carolina college students who felt that change for blacks was occurring too slowly

Fed law prohibits discrimination for race, religion, national origin & gender allowing all people to enter public places

On March 1, 1968, this commission issued a report which held that White Racism was the main cause of urban violence

Civil rights organization founded by ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957 to crusade against 2nd-class citizenship

Polarization means to:

Rosa Parks was famous for being the African-American woman who:

During the late1960s, federal officials began to promote ____ programs which make efforts to hire or enroll minorities

Elijah Muhammad was the head of the _____________, or the Black Muslims.

Sept. 1957, Gov. Faubus publicly ordered National Guard to keep black students from integrating all-white schools in:

1950 US Supreme Court case ruled state law schools must admit black applicants, even if separate black schools exists

African-American lawyer who led legal challenges against segregation winning 29 of 32 U.S. Supreme Court cases he tried.

Appealing to black frustration over little social & economic power, he preached a militant approach to civil rights

African-American civil rights leader born Malcolm Little in 1925 became Islamic minister after being released from jail

Martin Luther King, Jr. was:

Byron de la Beckwith was arrested for murdering this NAACP field secretary but was released after 2 hung trial juries

1896 US Supreme Court case ruled that “separate but equal” laws did not violate 14th Amendment Equal Protection clause

This federal law prohibited discrimination in housing

Miss. sharecropper's daughter/voting rights activist shocked DNC/TV viewers telling of being jailed registering to vote

1942 Chicago, they staged first sit-ins where black protesters sat at segregated lunch counters not leaving until served

He was the leader of the Black Power movement.

This US Supreme Court case struck down segregated public schools for violating 14th Amendment Equal Protection clause

African-American photojournalist documented over 60 years of African-American history in the segregated Southern U.S..

The problem facing African Americans in the North was this type of segregation that existed by practice and custom.

In Oakland(Oct. 1966), Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this political party to fight police brutality in the ghetto.

Civil rights activists tried to end bus segregation & traveled by bus in the South to test anti-segrgation Court rulings

In this Alabama city, angry whites attacked a freedom rider bus & when a tire blew, they threw a firebomb into the bus

A hiring _________ is a requirement that a certain number of job positions are filled by minorities

Fed law prohibits states from denying blacks voters by stopping literacy tests & lets federal examiners to enroll voters