civil rights
Who led the back to Africa movement?
Marcus Garvey
Who was the Governor of Arkansas that used the National Guard to keep 9 African American students out of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
Orval fabous
A series of violent demonstrations in the South prompted Kennedy to do what?
The push for civil rights in 1964
What Act strengthened the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by placing registration and voting processes under federal supervision and by outlawing literacy tests?
Voting rights Act 1995
Where did Dr. King give his "I Have a Dream Speech"?
Washington, D.C.
Who was Emmett Till?
14 year old boy murdered in Mississippi
What Amendment gave African Americans citizenship and guaranteed due process of law?
14th
What Executive Order, issued by President Truman in 1948, integrated those serving in the United States Armed Forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin?
9981
Who was James Meredith?
African american man to be addmited to the university of Mississippi
What was the Great Migration?
African americans by the hundreds migrate to northern cities to find jobs
Who was James Earl Ray?
Assassinated MLK
What was Executive Order 8802?
Banned discrimination
What was the Southern Manifesto?
Document written by the southern congressmen that expressed opposition to ratial integration.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Ended poll tax
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Enforced segregation
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
Fought for racial equality
What did Dr. King defend in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
His use of nonviolent protest
What Federal agency ended segregation on busses, trains, and in terminals?
Interstate Commerce Commission
What organization used terror and violence to keep African Americans from voting and later fought to keep segregation in America?
KKK
Who was Medgar Evers?
Leader of the NAACP
What were Black Codes?
Limited the rights of blacks in the south shot by klansman
Who believed African Americans should separate from whites and form their own self-sufficient communities?
Malcolm X
Who was Louis Armstrong?
One of the great jazz musicians to come of the harlem renaissance
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Period of african american cultural redevelopment
Who was responsible for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
Who was the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus?
Rosa Parks
What is defacto segregation?
Segragation based on choice not by law
What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?
That schools started integrating
What happened in response to the violent reactions whites had against the Montgomery Bus Boycott and against the Freedom Riders?
The interstate commerce commision ordered all public transportation to be disintegrated
What Act was passed in order to enforce the 15th Amendment?
The voting rights act of 1965
Who was Thurgood Marshall
Winning Attorney in the brown vs board of education case
Who was Langston Hughes?
Wrote poems about ghetto life
Who was Viola Luizzo?
shot by klansmen