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