Chapter 28 "Civil Rights Movement" Flashcards
What had not changed after almost 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was established?
African Americans were still being treated unfairly
NAAPC
National Association for Advancement of Colored People
Integrate
African Americans and white people together
moving together
Segregate
African Americans and white people kept apart
Separate
Plessy v.s. Ferguson
An 1896 Supreme Court case in which the “separate-but-equal” doctrine was established
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP attorney (lawyer) who led courtroom battles against segregation
Brown v.s. board of Education
A Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated schools were unconstitutional
Little Rock Nine
The first black students to integrate an Arkansas high school
Rosa Parks
African American seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man and was thrown in jail
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A 13 month long boycott sparked by Rosa Parks in which African Americans (and some whites) stopped using the bus
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A young baptist minister who owned a reputation as a powerful speaker, and was also a civil rights leader
John F. Kennedy (JFK)
the 35th President elected during 1960, youngest president ever
Freedom Rides
Black and White bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South
March on Washington
A massive demonstration for civil rights
Lyndon B. Johnson
JFK’s Vice President who assumed role as president after he was assassinated
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The act banning public segregation and outlawing discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin
Voting Rights Act of 1965
A law that gave the government new powers to protect the African Americans’ voting rights – signed by Lyndon B. Johnson
Great Society
Domestic Reforms (Lyndon B. Johnson)
Black Power
A movement that called for African American independence
Stokely Carmichael was one of many activists
Malcolm X
A man that helped inspire the Black Power movement and believed in violence
What was the New Frontier program?
A set of proposals including a higher minimum wage, new spending on the military and space program, new programs to help unemployed Americans, and tax cuts
Cesar Chavez
A Hispanic worker who worked to improve conditions.
Created UFW in 1962
He went on numerous hunger strikes which is believed to contribute to his death
United Farm Workers (UFW)
A union committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farm workers
Betty Friedan
The author of The Feminine Mystique, which declared that many women wanted achievements beyond those of becoming a wife and mother
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Founded by Betty Friedan
Made to fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women
Shirley Chisholm
In 1968 she was elected to represent a New York City district in the House of Representatives
First African American elected to U.S. Congress
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Outlawed all discrimination based on sex
Phyllis Shlafly
A conservative activist who founded STOP ERA to prevent its ratification
American Indian Movement (AIM)
(1968) to fight for Native American rights
Disabled in Action (DIA)
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