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