Chapter 27 "Working for Change"

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

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

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Who murdered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, 1968?

• James Earl Ray
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• John Wilkes Boothe 

Black nationalist leader who for awhile was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam; talked about black freedom “by any means necessary;” was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in NYC by Nation of Islam members

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where was Martin Luther King Jr. shot and killed in 1968?

• Indianapolis, IN
• Chicago, IL
• Atlanta, GA
• Memphis, TN

Outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or creed

• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• The 13th Amendment
• Voting Rights Act (1965)
• The 14th Amendment

True or False: Women and Men are paid equally today

• True
• False

He organized and fought for migrant farm workers’ rights, many of whom were Mexican-American

• Cesar Chavez

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Hector P. Garcia

The group that believed that African-Americans should rely more on themselves by controlling their own communities and businesses

• Black Panther Party

• NAACP

• Negroes United

• Black Power Movement

The period of the 1950’s – 1960’s that addressed the unequal treatment of African-Americans and other minority groups

• Equal Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Civil Rights

• Rights Acts of the 1960s

What was the popular motto of the Civil Rights Movement used by activists in the 1950's and 1960's? 

• We Shall Overcome
• We are all Winners
• Survival of the Fittest
• We Shall Fight