16.1-16.2 Quiz Review

Group of Black students who integrated Central HS in 1957 with military escorts

Present at many of the key civil rights events of 50s/60s. Current bill to improve voting rights bears his name

Formed by MLK, made up largely of southern Black ministers, used nonviolent resistance to bring change

Where was MLK jailed on Good Friday of 1963? (Hint: he wrote one of his most famous pieces from the jail)

What was unique about MLK's speech at the March on Washington

Response by white southerners to the Brown v Board ruling

This event catapulted MLK to leadership of the broader civil rights movement

These nonviolent protests began in Greensboro, NC in 1960 and spread throughout the nation

Failing to achieve progress through Congress, this group focused on litigation in federal courts to gain political goals

Baptist minister and leader of the movement. Last speaker during the March on Washington.

Sought to create a grass roots movement by organizing young students activists

Pushed Congress to pass Civil Rights Act of 1964, fulfilling legacy of slain JFK

The March on Washington took place on the 100 year anniversary of what event?

Commissioner of safety in Birmingham, Alabama. Used firehoses, cattle prods, and attack dogs on demonstrators.

Governor of Alabama: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"

Supreme Court ruling in 1954 which desegregated public schools

Segregation by law, as practiced in the Jim Crow South

Earliest group to form around civil rights. Used nonviolent methods to end discriminatory policies/improve race relation

He had his worst fear realized when he was forced to use federal troops to enforce the Brown ruling in Little Rock

Supreme Court ruling in 1896 that established the doctrine of "separate but equal"

Refusal to give up seat to a white person led to Montgomery Bus Boycott, launching the broader civil rights movement

Young boy from Chicago lynched for an interaction with a white women. Open casket funeral showed depths of racism.

Lead NAACP lawyer in Brown v Board case. Later became first black justice on Supreme Court.

In 1961 CORE organized two interracial buses to go throughout the South, they were met with violence in Mississippi

Segregation by practice or custom, as occurred in the North