Groups 1 Groups 2 Laws etc.. Leaders All Areas 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

First organized civil rights movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott

First Group to Test desegregation of public schools

Little Rock Nine

Group who went to see that desegregation laws were enforced in the South

Freedom Riders

Group advocated “Black Power” and community development

Black Panthers

SNCC

Students Non-Violence Coordinating Committee

SCLC

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

CORE

Congress of Racial Equality

This organization determined white racism was the cause of urban violence

Kerner Commission

Banned Poll Taxes in U.S.

24 Amendment

Act prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Eliminated literacy tests for voting

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Segregation that exists by practice or custom

De facto segregation

Leader of the March on Washington

Martin Luther King Jr.

Leader of Nation of Islam

Malcolm X

Leader of SNCC

Stokely Carmichael

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded this political party

Black Panthers

Air Force veteren who won court case to allow him to enroll in the University of Mississippi

James Meredith

Designed to help equalize education and work opportunities

Affirmative Action

Program named by LBJ to raise up people from poverty

Great Society

This Act ended housing discrimination

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Lawyer who defends Brown v Bd of Education, later becomes first black Supreme Court Judge

Thurgood Marshall

Affirmed the legality of Racial Segregation

Plessy v. Ferguson

This organization put Economic pressure on segregated bussing in Montgomery Alabama

Montgomery Improvement Association

Supporter of Civil Rights, he was assassinated 2 months after MLK

Bobby Kennedy

Plessy v Ferguson established the legality of this policy of segregation

De jure Segregation