16.1-16.2 Vocab Quiz

segregation imposed by law

• De jure segregation

• De Facto segregation

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

segregation by unwritten custom or tradition

• De jure segregation

• De Facto segregation

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

law that established a federal Civil Rights Commission to investigate violations of civil rights

• De jure segregation

• De Facto segregation

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

began the Montgomery bus protest in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. She continued to be active in the civil rights movement while working for a member of Congress and starting a nonprofit organization to help young people.

• Earl Warren

• Orval Faubus

• Rosa Parks

served three terms as governor of California before serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. Under his leadership, the Court decided several landmark cases that affected civil rights, criminal procedures, voting rights, and separation of church and state.

• Earl Warren

• Orval Faubus

• Rosa Parks

was the governor of Arkansas from 1954 to 1967. He is best known for ordering the Arkansas National Guard to block nine African American students from entering Little Rock Central High School in 1957, in defiance of a federal court order that mandated the end of racial segregation in schools. His efforts failed when President Eisenhower sent federal troops to usher the students into the school.

• Earl Warren

• Orval Faubus

• Rosa Parks

became the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi in 1954. He traveled the state recruiting members and organized voter-registration drives, demonstrations, and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. In 1963, he was assassinated outside of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Medgar Evers

became counsel for the NAACP in 1938 and won 29 of the 32 major civil rights cases he argued over the next 23 years. In 1967, he became the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court and held the post until poor health caused him to retire in 1991.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Medgar Evers

advocated nonviolent methods of protest while becoming perhaps the most influential leader of the civil right movement. He led the March on Washington in 1963, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He was assassinated in 1968.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Medgar Evers

form of protest during which participants sit and refuse to move

• sit-in

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• Freedom Ride