civil rights

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

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

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

• affirmative action
• de facto segregation
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 
• National Organization for Women 

What Black Nationalist group was once led by Malcolm X?

• Nation of Islam
• SNCC
• CORE
• Black Panthers

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

This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender,  or religion. 

• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act
• 15th  Amendment
• Civil Rights Movement

Policy of favoring members of a historically disadvantaged group who suffer or have suffered from discrimination within a culture.

• Brown v. Board of Education
• 13th Amendment
• Affirmative Action
• Jim Crow Laws

African-American civil rights organization formed in 1909 by W. E. B. Du Bois and others.  Mainly used legal battles to win civil rights victories.

• Black Panthers
• Little Rock Nine
• N.A.A.C.P.
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, he articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and '60s. “…by any means necessary.”

• Malcolm X
• Rosa Parks
• Lester Maddox
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.