Civil Rights Movement

What is segregation that exists through custom and practice rather than by law?

Under whose leadership did the SNCC abandon the philosophy of nonviolence?

Which of the following Civl Rights leaders encouraged violent protests?

Who helped end segregation at the University of Mississippi in 1962 with his enrollment?

On August 28, 1963, the largest civil rights demostration ever held in the US took place in __.

Which nonviolent protest led to the integration of the Woolworth's lunch counter?

Which event did hundreds of college students volunteer to register African Americans to vote?

Which group led a nonviolent protest to force bus station facilities to integrate?

Which Civil Rights group was militant and supported violent protests?

In Little Rock, Arkansas the governor violated a federal court order to ____ the high school.

Which amendment outlawed the practice of taxing citizens to vote (poll tax)?

Who was elected to be the first leader of the SCLC to protest for civil rights?

Eisenhower sent US soldiers to escort the ______ into the high school to force integration.

Who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Which Supreme Court case established the legal basis for segregation?

Which federal government agency was responsible for weakening the SNCC and Black Panthers?

What was the primary intent of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

Which law banned discrimination in employment and in public accomodations?

Which act banned discrimination in the sale and rental of housing?

Rosa Park's arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white rider resulted in the ___.

Which of the following is NOT a form of non-violent protest?

Which Supreme Court case desegregated public schools in the US & overturned Plessy v Furgeson?

Non-violent civil rights organizations based their philosophy on the teachings of ____.

What are programs that gave preference to minorities in hiring and admissions in the 1970s?

Who became the Supreme Court's first African American justice?

Which protest led by Ralph Abernathy that targeted proverty was a failure?

What did the Kerner Commission find was the cause of the Urban riots in the 1960s?

Which non-violent protest helped pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965?