Chapter 28: Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
Booker T Washington
put up with segregation for the time being; good citizen
WEB DeBois
wanted equality now
Little Rock crisis
governor called in national guard on 9 black students from entering the school; couldn’t get in for 3 weeks; Eisenhower sent US troops to protect students in Central High School in Arkansas; 1957
Plessy v Ferguson
supreme court ruled “separate but equal”
Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man and arrested; NAACP member; Montgomery Bus Boycott led to Supreme Court ruling of segregation busses illegal; creation of SCLC
SCLC
southern Christian leadership conference; MLK selected to be group leader; protest activities across the south with nonviolence
Ghandi
spiritual leader in India who inspired MLK to be nonviolent
Sit-In Movement
Greensboro, North Carolina; Woolworth’s at segregated lunch counter; 4 back college students refused service; protesters joined in with nonviolence and no disprution
Freedom Riders
1960; Supreme Court ruled bus station facilities for interstate travelers must be open to all passengers; CORE sent group on bus through the Deep South
Robert Kennedy sent
federal marshalls to Montgomery to protect riders
interstate commerce commission
forced integration of bus and train stations
James Meredith
enrolled at University of Mississippi; 50 federal marshals met with 2,500 violent protesters; Kennedy sent troops; hundreds injured and 2 killed
George Wallace
governor of Alabama; blocked Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling in the University of Alabama
Albany movement
sit in; Albany bus station; MLK lead demonstrations and got arrested; 9 month movement; failed
the campaign
MLK hoped to motivate more people; white clergy attacked MLK in newspaper add; “letter from Birmingham jail” speech from MLK
Eugene Connor
police chief; “bull”; used firefighters to break up 2,500 student protesters
Medgar Evers
head of NAACP in Mississippi and assassinated
Byron De La Bechwith
KKK member; tried for the crime but failed to convict all-white jury; tried the 3rd time