Chapter 13 The Civil Rights Era

Martin Luther King, Jr. first came to national attention in 1943 when CORE protested discrimination in public places.

• True

• False

The Equal Rights Amendment became the law of the land in 1972.

• True

• False

The organized fight for equal rights for African Americans began in the mid-1900s.

• True

• False

Brown v. Board of Education overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

• True

• False

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

• True

• False

sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott

• New Frontier

• CORE

• Rosa Parks

• Head Start

• James Meredith

provides preschool for poor children

• New Frontier

• CORE

• Rosa Parks

• Head Start

• James Meredith

organized the Freedom Riders

• New Frontier

• CORE

• Rosa Parks

• Head Start

• James Meredith

policies put forth by President Kennedy

• New Frontier

• CORE

• Rosa Parks

• Head Start

• James Meredith

first African American student at the University of Mississippi

• New Frontier

• CORE

• Rosa Parks

• Head Start

• James Meredith