chapter 21 Flashcards
Thurgood marshall
led the legal challenge against segregation
brown vs. board of education
court case in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional
rosa parks
helped start Montgomery bus boycott
martin luther king jr
leader of the civil rights movement
SCLC
civil rights organization
SNCC
civil rights organization formed by students
sit-in
blacks occupied whites-only seats at lunch counters
freedom riders
civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses
james Meredith
AA who won enrollment to the all-white University of Mississippi
civil rights act of 1964
law that outlawed racial discrimination
freedom summer
win voting rights for southern blacks
fannie lou hamer
prominent voting rights activist
voting rights act of 1965
struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting
de facto segregation
segregation by custom or practice
de jure segregation
segregation by law
Malcolm X
AA civil rights leader
Nation of Islam
group headed by Elijah Muhammed
Stokely Carmichael
leader of black power movement
Black power
movement that stressed black pride
black panthers
AA group founded to combat police brutality
Kerner Commission
commission that reported on race relations in America
civil rights act of 1968
banned discrimination in housing
affirmative action
program aimed at hiring or including minorities
