Ch. 27 Flashcards
Life under Jim Crow
African Americans were still segregated and could not eat in restaurants patronized by whites or use the same waiting room at bus stations.
A Philip Randolph
leader in african american civil rights movement
Double V
african americans were trying to be treated as equals and this campain was to get a double victory for racism at home and abroad.
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
Jackie Robinson
colored baseball player who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
Great Migration effects on Northern politics
increased the political cause of black migration.
Mexican American Challenges & Mendez v. Westminster School District
because mexican children were being forced to be moved to a mexican school only
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African-American justice
Brown v Board of Education
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
Southern reactions
enraged
Emmett Till and his case
he was visiting family and seen talking to a white man in a grocery store which led to him being tortured and murdered.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
n 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing. In 1955, a little-known minister named Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
Sit-ins in Greensboro
4 african american college student sat in the whites only section of the counter and wouldn’t leave until they were served also.
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960.
Freedom Rides
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme
March on Washington
civil rights movement where they had “freedom buses” and “freedom trains” ad all just car pooled
Civil Rights Act of 1964
law that was about civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment, education, and public accomodations illegal.
Freedom Summer
attempt to register as many african americans as possible so they could vote in Mississippi.
Selma March
the march in Selma, Alabama to the state capital, Montgomery to protest the murder of a voting rights activist
Voting Rights Act of 1965
outlawed the literacy test and other devices that prevented African Americans from registering to vote, and at least 50% to vote.
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President
Black nationalism and the Nation of Islam
BN: emphasized black racial pride
NI: religion founded in the united states that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s
Malcolm X
n American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
Stokely Carmichael
as a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement
Black Panthers
a militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence, took their cue from Malcolm X
Watts Riots, Detroit riots of 1967
alienated whites
Kerner Commission Report
the most honest and forthright government document about race, it shut out the white dominated society.
Event of April 4th, 1968
MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS ASSASSINATED!!!!
Cesar Chavez and the UFW
mexican american civil rights and social justice activists.
UFW was aunion primarily Mexican American aricultural laborers in cali.
Chicanos
term to describe “mexican american”, later organized a political party to promote Chicanos interests.
American Indian Movement
Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faces in American cities including poverty and police harassment.
