Quest for Civil Rights

• Slavery was abolished in 1865
• Emmett Till was kidnapped and lynched by white supremacists for allegedly speaking to a white woman
• Executive Order 8802 banned discrimination in the military
• NAACP membership had reached 600,000 by 1946
• CORE stands for Congress Of Racial Equality
• The Montgomery Bus boycott began in December 1955 and lasted just over a year
• The two influential people associated with the Montgomery Bus boycott are Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
• Martin Luther King aimed to desegregate Birmingham
• Two principles of non-violent protest were to dress smartly and to remain calm even if attacked
• The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964
• The Civil Rights Act was passed by President Johnson
• Brown vs Board of Education was in 1956
• The Greensboro sit-in took place on 1st February 1960 at a Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
• The Greensboro sit-in came to an end due to a bomb scare
• SNCC stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• The Freedom Rides in 1961 were organized by CORE and SNCC to desegregate interstate bus travel
• One famous singer that joined King in his march on Washington in 1963 was Bob Dylan
• The NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
• After the first day, some volunteers had disappeared
• In 1964, riots took place in northern cities like New York
• The Northern Crusade in 1966 was a march demanding justice and testing the limits of the law; checking the stat of ghettos
• Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968
• The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, banning discrimination in voting
• In 1980, 60% of black Americans were registered to vote
• The BIA stands for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
• Termination was a policy where the government tried to get rid of Native American culture
• Two laws passed to help Native Americans were the Indian Education Act and the Extension of Voting Rights Act
• An unresolved issue that would have helped Native Americans was land
• The Bracero program was a program that encouraged Mexicans to work in the US for pay and housing
• Two leading figures of the Hispanic civil rights movement were Cesar Chavez and Rodolfo Gonzales
• Two issues for Hispanic Americans were deportation and workers rights
• The Brown Berets were a young militant organization
• In 1954, the Supreme Court declared Hispanics as equal citizens
• The Cuban American Adjustment Act stated that if Cubans lived in the US for a year, they could become citizens
• How many volunteers were sent to the South in 1964 to encourage black people to vote?


  45
• How many volunteers had disappeared a day after going to the South to encourage black people to vote?

  6
• How many black people applied to vote in 1964?

  17000
• How many black people were accepted to vote in 1964?

  1600
• Malcolm X’s real name was Malcom Little
• Malcom X believed that non-violent protest wasn’t effective and wouldn’t work