Civil Rights Movement

What is the NAACP?

• A sports organization promoting athletic events.
• A political party focused on economic issues.
• A charity organization for animal welfare.
• The NAACP is a civil rights organization focused on advancing racial equality.

Who was Martian Luther King Jr? (2)

• A famous astronaut from the 1960s.
• Civil Rights leader known for nonviolent protesting

• A politician known for his economic policies.
• A prominent civil rights leader in the United States.

Who was Malcolm X?

• A civil rights leader and activist who had violent protest methods

• A scientist who contributed to space exploration.
• A politician known for his economic policies.
• A famous musician from the 1960s.

This Amendment outlawed slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment made African Americans citizens guaranteed equal protection under the law -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment guaranteed African Americans the right to vote -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

These were restrictions on voting for African Americans -

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• grandfather clause

• unfair exams that were sometimes written in Latin

Laws created after Reconstruction to enforce segragation in public places -

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Jim Pigeon Laws

• KKK Code

Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Hernandez V. Texas

Removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting -

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment