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Rosa Parks was arrested for violating what code in Montgomery, Alabama?
Separate but equal accommodations on a city bus
What was segregation?
Separation of ethnic groups based on the color of skin. Done in the American South based on "separate but equal" Jim Crow laws.
What was the significance of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
It overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and legally required schools to desegregate.
What president was involved with Little Rock Nine?
Eisenhower
What was true of the Jim Crow Era?
It began after Reconstruction, state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the South, leaders of the Civil Rights Movement worked hard to end it.
What was "white flight?"
The transfer of a large number of Southern white students from public schools to private schools due to a negative view of school integration.
Who said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr
What did the Freedom Riders encounter?
They were civil rights left Washington DC for New Orleans in 1961, rode segregated buses in the south, were fire bombed and beaten
What is discrimination?
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
MLK was...
a baptist minister, believed in nonviolent resistance, led the Montgomery bus boycott
Robert F. Kennedy was
Attorney General, was a Senator from NY, believed in desegregation, campaigned for president
What do Dr. King, Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy all have in common?
They were all assassinated between 1965 and 1968.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a law which --
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or ethnicity illegal.
What was one major element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
It outlawed literacy tests as a requirement for voting.
The term "Bloody Sunday" was used to describe the events of...
The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March
