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Legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 U.S. states.
Obergefell v. Hodges Decision
Began after a police raid in New York City.
Stonewall Riots
Permitted LGBT people to serve in the military.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
T/F: Selma to Montgomery Freedom Marchers...Alabama State Troopers committed acts of violence against Black civilians.
True
T/F: Selma to Montgomery Freedom March...The term "Bloody Sunday" was used to describe the events of March 7, 1965.
True
T/F: Selma to Montgomery Freedom March...Dr. King never got involved with the events at Selma.
False
T/F:The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March...Television footage of the events of the first attempt outraged people across the country.
True
T/F:The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March...The first attempt was stopped after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
True
T/F:The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March...the first attempt succeeded
False
T/F:The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March had John Lewis as a key organizer
True
Malcolm X was...
opposite of MLK in beliefs of nonviolence, was a one time member of the Nation of Islam, and was assassinated
The Black Panther Party...
was started by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, started in Oakland, and involved citizens on patrol
Sit-ins involved
college students sitting at white lunch counters enduring threats and violence, approved by Ella Baker, and were a form of non-violent protest
Ruby Bridges was
a six year old girl from Louisiana who was escorted by Federal Marshalls to school, endured racism, inspired Rockwell's "The Problem we all Live With"
The Little Rock Nine involved what?
Nine black students intergrating into an all white school in Arkansas. The National Guard was involved in a month long protest as white mobs attacked pupils.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Separate but equal constitutional amendment that allowed discrimination
T/F MLK was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
True
T/F Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
True
The Stonewall uprising involved...
the first large scale organizing of gay rights
Residential maps show discrimination separated by color in housing but it is usually called
redlining
The Birmingham bombing involved...
the deaths of four black girls attending Sunday school
The term "Bloody Sunday" was used to describe the events of...
The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March
What was one major element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
It outlawed literacy tests as a requirement for voting.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a law which --
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or ethnicity illegal.
What do Dr. King, Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy all have in common?
They were all assassinated between 1965 and 1968.
Robert F. Kennedy was
Attorney General, was a Senator from NY, believed in desegregation, campaigned for president
MLK was...
a baptist minister, believed in nonviolent resistance, led the Montgomery bus boycott
What is discrimination?
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
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
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 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.
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 president was involved with Little Rock Nine?
Eisenhower
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 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.
Rosa Parks was arrested for violating what code in Montgomery, Alabama?
Separate but equal accommodations on a city bus
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