African American Studies Review

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Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

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Jim Crow Laws

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What legal action made it acceptable to allow segregation in public facilities?

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Which of the following BEST describes the significance of Emmett Till? First African American to attend the University of Alabama, Established the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Organized Freedom Summer

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His death demonstrated the racial customs and segregated legal system of the South

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When did Malcolm Little change his name to Malcolm X?

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When he joined the Nation of Islam

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Malcolm X was a member of

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The Nation of Islam

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Civil Rights leader who helped establish the NAACP...

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W.E.B. Dubois

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The 1896 court decision Plessy vs. Ferguson...

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Established legal racial segregation

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One of the best-known female black abolitionists was

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Sojourner Truth