Vocabulary+for+Civil+Rights+ERA

**Indian self determination** act4 words for law giving Native Americans control over law enforcement, social programs and education __**La Raza Unida **__Mexican American group with goal of better jobs and pay, better housing and education __**Montgomery Alabama **__ 2 words for city where Martin Luther King led a bus boycott __**Prosperity and economic growth **__ 3 words for aspect of WWII that did not energize civil rights movement __**Betty Friedan **__2 names for author of Feminine Mystique and cofounder of NOW __**Great Society**__ 2 words for 1960s reform program promoting civil rights and federal aid to education __**civil rights act of 1964**__ 4 words and year for law banning segregation in public places __**Martin Luther king**__ 3 names for civil rights leader who used methods similar to Cesar Chavez, used non violent protests to achieve goals __**Cesar Chavez**__ 2 names for civil rights leader using methods similar to Martin Luther King, used boycotts to win rights for followers in Southwest and California __**Arkansas**__ Southern state with highest percentage of black registered voters in 1971 __**Voting Rights Act**__ 3 words for law banning literacy tests to keep blacks from registering to vote __**Birmingham Alabama**__ Southern city where televised police brutality against children increased public support for civil rights movement <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Chicago Illinois**__ 2 names for city where SCLC had one of its biggest failures <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Topeka Kansas**__ city where lawsuit against school system ended court protected segregation in schools <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Kennedy**__ president who did not push for civil rights fearing losing support of Southerners in Congress <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Phyllis Schlafly**__ 2 names for woman who opposed Equal Rights amendment as unnecessary involvement of government in people's lives <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Termination policy**__ 2 words for government action to remove protection of Native American land <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Hispanics**__ ethnic group with large diversity making it difficult to organize large scale civil rights organizations <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**March on Washington**__ 3 words for nonviolent protest that led Kennedy to support Civil rights laws <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**NAACP**__ 5 initials for organization that did not always use nonviolent protest methods like SCLC and CORE <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**SCLC**__ 4 initials which stand for Southern Christian Leadership Council which led nonviolent protests in Birmingham Alabama <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Higher Education Act**__ 3 words for 1972 law reducing inequalities among men and women <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Civil Rights Act**__ 3 words for 1964 law that reduced inequalities between men and women <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**24th amendment**__ amendment with shortcomings leading to the Voting Rights Act <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**Voting rights**__ 2 words for political power helping African Americans to achieve their goals <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**racism**__ discrimination, many people thought this belief contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**thurgood marshall**__ member of the NAACP who led the attorneys challenging segregation in schools, persuaded Supreme Court that __**segregation**__ in schools was unconstitutional <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**brown versus board**__ of education of topeka 7 words for Supreme Court Ruling ending segregation in schools <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**montgomery bus boycott**__ 3 words for end of segregated transportation in Montgomery, AL <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**sit in**__ 2 words for protest where people sit in a place and refuse to move <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**CORE**__ COngress of Racial Equality 4 words for activist group which planned the freedom rides to desegregate interstate buses <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**freedom rides**__ 2 words for protests of segregation on interstate buses <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> __**March on Washington**__ 3 words for demonstration in Washington which led to more Civil Rights laws <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**freedom summer**__ 2 words for program to bring Northern College students to South for voter registration drives <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**great society**__ 2 words for Johnson's plan to end poverty and racial injustice <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**malcolm X**__ name and initial for leader of Nation of Islam who would reject separation of races for all races living together <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">__**ERA**__ initials for Equal Rights Amendment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Selma Alabama **<span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 2 words for U.S. city where state trooper violence led **Johnson** to push for Voting Rights Bill