3. Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The “separate but equal” segregation laws state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965.
What did the NAACP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Martin Luther King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
What happened because of the Brown v. Topeka Case?
1954 Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation, declaring that separate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed society became less racist.
Who was Malcolm X?
A black Muslim leader who said blacks needed to have a separate society from whites, but later changed his views. He was assassinated in 1965.
What was the Black Panther Party?
Organisation of armed black militants formed in Oakland, California, in 1966 to protect black rights. The Panthers represented a growing dissatisfaction with the non-violent wing of the civil rights movement and instead took a violent approach.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
This law banned discrimination in housing, the segregation of education, transportation, and employment. It helped African-Americans gain their full voting rights.
