Civil Rights

What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?

• Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.

• Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism

• OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA

• Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty

What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?

• Guzman V. School

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Miranda V. Arizona

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

• Dolores Huerta

• Malcom X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ceaser Chavez

What organization created by W.E.B. Dubois sought immediate equality for minorities?

• WAC

• HUAC

• NAACP

• SNCC

During which event did Eisenhower send troops to Arkansas in order to desegregate a high school?

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Little Rock Nine

• Atomic Bombs

• Flying Tigers

Who was arrested after refusing to give up their seat on the bus?

• Martin Luther king

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

• Lyndon Johnson

__________ were denied service at the "whites only" counter, so they organized a sit-in.

• The Greensboro Four

• Freedom Riders

• Rosa Parks

• The Montgomery Bus Boycotters

_______ prevents racial discrimination in employment, voting, and the use of public facilities.

• Plessy V Ferguson

• Loving v Virginia

• Voting rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights act of 1964

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that...

• states may not secede from the Union

• all western territories should be open to slavery

• racial segregation was legal

• slaves are property and may not be taken from their owners

A legal term that allowed segregation, as long as both white and African American areas and services were equal.

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• 14th Amendment

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• separate but equal