Ch 25 (Burke)

Minister whose nonviolent methods helped the civil rights movement transform American society.

In 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to:

Along with Bobby Seale, organized the Black Panthers.

In Little Rock, the governor tried to prevent AA students from entering a white high school by:

After his pilgrimage to Makkah, this man concluded that an integrated society was possible.

This group traveled into the South by bus to test compliance with laws outlawing segregation.

Arrested for refusing to give up a seat on a bus to a white man.

Became a symbol of the black power movement.

The passage of which law marked a turning point in the civil rights movement?

The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights law since Reconstruction, was intended to:

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped protect civil rights, but it did not:

The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for:

This organization supported court cases to overturn segregation since its founding in 1909.

When told to end segregation “with all deliberate speed” the vague wording allowed districts to

The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr believed the way to end segregation was through:

Student who was denied admission to her neighborhood school.

Outraged by Rosa Parks’s arrest, Jo Ann Robinson called on African Americans to:

CORE used ____, a form of protest used by workers in the 30s, to desegregate restaurants.

The ruling in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 established:

Which act did President Johnson sign into law on July 2, 1964?

In the 50s-60s, many African Americans were trapped in inner cities because of the following:

In registering AA to vote, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the attorney general to:

Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because:

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ended racial segregation:

The Kerner Commission blamed the problems of inner cities on: