Civil Rights Review

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• banned discrimination in employment and public housing.

• abolished poll taxes.

• gave African Americans the rights to vote.

• abolished slavery.

Leader of the SCLC

• Malcolm X

• Stokely Carmichael

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up a seat in the front of the bus to a white man.

• Martin Luther King Jr

• James Meredith

• Medgar Evers

• Rosa Parks

Leader that advocated the Black Power Movement.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Orval Faubus

• Malcolm X

Members of SNCC used this method of protest to integrate lunch counters in the south:

• Sit-ins

• Marches

• Riots

• Freedom Rides

First African-American Student to attend the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss):

• James Meredith

• Stokely Carmichael

• MLK Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

Argued Brown VS. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and then became the first Black Supreme Court Justice

• Stokely Carmichael

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Orval Faubus

Elimination of segregation

• Civil Disobedience

• Desegregation

• Stereotype

• Racism

What was the goal of the Black Panthers?

• to turn American citizens against democracy

• to end the Vietnam War

• to convince African Americans to support "black power"

• to gain equal pay for black Americans

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government

• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.

• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional

• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued