Civil Rights Flashcards by Sam Connor

Brown Vs Board

Banned Segregation in schools OVERTURNED PLESSY VS. FURGESON (Supreme Court justice Earl Warren)

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SCLC

Southern Christian Leadership Commitee

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Plessy Vs. Ferguson

Separate but Equal

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Rosa Parks

Seamstress who sat in the front of bus and refused to move for white person and refused causing arrest and a 10$ fine (started Montgomery bus Boycott)

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James Meredith

First to integrate ole miss

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March on Washington

Peaceful protest where MLK delivered his “I have a dream Speech”

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Freedom Summer

Protests and displays to encourage voting rights for AA’s in Mississippi

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Sit Ins

Students and civil rights activists sat at the bars of diners in Greensboro that were reserved for whites as a form of protest.

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Huey Newton

Leader of the black panther Party

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Black Panther Party

Us SS militant group - violent revolution was the only way to gain freedom - started free lunches for black children (Leaders- Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seal)

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James Earl Ray

Assassin of MLK

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Thurgood Marshall

Attorney in Brown vs Board

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SNCC

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commitee

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Little Rock 9

Black students that were booed and called racial slurs when integrating a “white” school

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A. Phillip Randolph

Inspiration for MLK

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Jackie Robinson

First black mlb player

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Freedom Rides

Bus rides among civil rights activists to pursue integration in the south

Booby Seale

LEADER OF BLACK PANTHER PARTY

MEADGER EVERS

HEAD OF NAACP (SHOT OUTSIDE OF HOME)

GEORGE WALLACE

GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA “SEGREGATION NOW, TOMMOROW FOEVER”

RUBY BRIDGES

ONE OF 6 INTERGRATORS IN NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS IN 1960

STOKLEY CARMICHAEL

CREATOR OF BLACK POWER

BLACK POWER

RACIAL PRIDE AND A MOVEMENT TO ACHIVE EQUALITY

BOBBY KENNEDY

BROTHER OF JFK WOULD’VE LIKELY WON PRES BUT GOT ASSASINATED

EUGENE “BULL”CONNOR

BHAM POLICE CHIEF (VERY RACIST)

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964

BANNED ALL DISCRIMINATION

WE SHALL OVERCOME

ANTHEM OF CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

NAACP

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

ORVAL FAUBUS

RASICT GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS THAT TRIED TO STOP THE LITTLE ROCK 9 FOR ENTERING SCHOOL

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

GOING AGAINST A LAW YOU CONSIDER UNJUST

MALCOM X

LEADER IN THE NATION OF ISLAM (LEFT) USED MORE VIOLENCE - ASSASSINATED BY RIVAL GROUP

ELIJAH MUHAMMAD

LEADER OF NATION OF ISLAM - SEPERATING WHITES AND BLACKS (MENTOR FOR MALCOM X) - “WHITES TRICKED THE BLACKS OUT OF POWER”

NATION OF ISLAM

POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUP THAT BELIEVED RACES SHOULD COME TOGETHER BUT SEPARATE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (VIOLENCE) - FOUNDED 1930

TOMMIE SMITH

GAVE THE BLACK POWER SYMBOL AFTER WINNING OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN RUNNING

SELMA

MARCHES FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY AL 1965 TO REGISTER BLACK VOTERS - STOPED TWICE MADE IT 3RD TIME

JAMES FARMER

FOUNDER OF C.O.R.E (NON VIOLENT)

ROSS BARNETT

GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI (RACIST)

JOHN LEWIS

FREEDOM RIDER - CO FOUNDER OF SNCC (HELPED ORGANIZE MARCH ON WASHINGTON - SELMA)

LETTER FROM BHAM JAIL

WRITTEN BY MLK WHEN SPENDING 8 DAYS IN BHAM PRISION - A RESPONSE ADDRESSING TENSION BETWEEN RACES AND THE PROTESTS IN BHAM

DE JURE

BY LAW (DE FACTO)

LINDA BROWN

BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION CHILD

ELIZABETH ECKFORD

ONE OF LITTLE ROCK 9 CHOSEN TO INTEGRATE