Civil Rights Movement

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

Ended discrimination in all businesses connected with the government.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Affirmative Action

Eliminated Poll Taxes in Federal Elections.

• 24th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes in all elections.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Affirmative Action

Effort to desegregate interstate transportation by integrated passengers riding buses from the north to the south.

• Sit-Ins
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Freedom Rides
• Black Star Cruiseline

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

Group working for Civil Rights that promoted "Black Power"

• NAACP
• SNCC
• Black Panthers
• Southern Democrats

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

student organization founded to help black citizens register to vote, led non-violent protests, sit-ins, and boycotts of business that would not serve blacks

• SNCC
• Albany Movement
• Brown v BOE
• Sibley commission