America 1920-1973 Flashcards
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The Montgomery Bus boycott was the boycott of all city buses in Montgomery as Rosa Parks refused to give her up seat for a white passenger and was arrested for it. The NAACP agreed to call a boycott for all city buses in Montgomery. The boycott almost lasted a year. The Supreme Court ruled that segregated buses were illegal.
What Was the Jim Crow laws?
The Jim Crow laws were any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil right movement in the 1950s
What was the civil rights movement?
The Civil Rights movement was a mass popular movement to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship
What was the Brown vs Topeka case?
The Brown vs Board of Education in Topeka was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What was the Little Rock Nine and what did they do?
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governer of Arkansas.
Who were the most important Civil Rights activists during the 1950s?
Many leaders from within the African American community and beyond rose to prominence during the Civil Rights era, including Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Andrew Goodman and others. They risked and sometimes lost their lives in the name of freedom and equality.
Who and what was the KKK?
The KKK or Klu Klux Klan was a clan founded on the 24th December 1865 by people who believed that white people and who wanted to see black people remaining slaves. They went around the USA or popular parts of the USA and would have killed/threatened blacks, christians and many other religions and races for white supremacy across the USA. Members of the KKK discriminated against black people, Roman Catholics, Jews and Mexicans. Members of the KKK killed black people by hanging without trial or lynching. Even the police could not protect the victims and also even took part in the killings.
What was the Civil Rights Bill/Act of 1964?
The Civil Rights Bill/Act of 1964 ended segregation of public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin, and is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
When were the sit-ins? What was the purpose of it?
The Greensboro sit-ins happened in 1960 and were a series of non violent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What was the purpose of the Freedom Riders?
The Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions.
Why did the Albany Movement fail?
The Albany Movement mobilized thousands of citizens and attracted nationwide attention, but failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition.
What was the Birmingham Movement and who was involved?
The Birmingham Movement was a movement organized in early 1963 by the SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama
