Civil Rghts Flashcards
Civil disobedience
Breaking a rule or law knowing you will be punished because you believe the law is wrong.
major goals/values of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
- Achieving goals through nonviolent civil disobedience
- end segregation
- support labor unions
- end the Vietnam war
- ending US support for dictators
- ending poverty
Principles of nonviolence
- see the people who are doing wrong as victims who need love not hate
- people have a responsibility to stand up to injustices not ignore them
- responds to violence with kindness not hatred in an attempt to educate influence people’s perceptions
MIA ( Montgomery improvement organization)
An organization that was created to organize one particular action in the Civil Rights movement, though it’s leaders went on to form another organization that coordinated other actions.
SNCC ( student nonviolent coordination committee)
This organization was started on college campuses and organized the freedom rides, and Freedom Summer.
NAACP (national association for the advancement of colored people)
One of the oldest organizations fighting for African American rights, it continued to play an important role throughout the civil rights movement and still exists today.
SCLC (southern Christian leadership conference)
Organized by leaders of different civil rights actions, this organization offered training on how to use non-violence and helped people organizing to fight segregation.
Advantages of nonviolence
- makes people more likely to support what the movement is trying to accomplish
- starts to break down prejudices
Rosa parks role in the civil rights movement
She was a civil rights activist who routinely challenged unfair laws, and one of those challenges led to major changes.
Which of the following are things whites did to try to stop the boycott?
- churches were bombed
- The homes of some boycott leaders were bombed.
- At least one person was beat to death by the police
- KKK members from the surrounding area came in to try to intimidate blacks.
- A citizen’s council was organized to fight back against the boycott and a rally of whites was held.
- rosa parks was fired
Which of the following are things done to help the bus boycott participants avoid riding the busses?
- Funeral homes would offer people rides in the hearses.
- Rosa Parks got a pick up truck full of used bicycles for people to use.
- Black taxi cab drivers would give people rides for reduced fares.
- People from around the country sent shoes since people were walking so much resulting in shoes being worn out.
- Some white women would go pick up their maids
- Churches took up collections to buy station wagons to drive people to work
- Organizers coordinated pick-up spots where people who had cars could pick-up anyone who needed rides
What ended the Montgomery boycott?
The court case filed by organizers reached the Supreme Court who ruled the segregation was illegal, so the bus company was forced to change its rules.
What did rosa parks do that got her arrested?
she refused to give up her seat in the black section of the bus for a white person
What happened when the Little Rock Nine tried to go to Little Rock High school?
Mobs and the Governor tried to stop them, but the President sent in troops to protect them
What was the Governor Faubus’s role in the Little Rock Nine school integration?
He ordered the Arkansas National Guard to stop the nine black students from entering the school
