Civil Rights Flashcards by Shalini Mallawaaratchy

Brown .VS. Board 1954

Overturned Plessy V Ferguson
- said it was unconstitutional to separate school children by face

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SCLC

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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SNCC

Student non-violence coordinating comitte
-freedom summer

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CORE

Congress of racial equality
-sit ins
-Freedom rides

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NAACP

National association of the advancement of colored peopled

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Civil rights

Protecting/previleges given to citizens by law

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Prejudice

Irrational hatred of other groups

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Racism

An attitude of superiority toward a person of a different race,most often person of color

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Bias

Favoring

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Discrimination

Treating people differently based on race or other characteristics

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Rosa park

-seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested and fined $10-14
-started Montgomery bus boycott

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Montgomery bus boycott

17,000 AA refused to use city busses (city lost money)
ended segregation on busses in 1956

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De jure

Segregation by law

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De facto

Segregation

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Emmett till

-14 year old boy from Chicago
- “ Whistled” as a white lady
-brutally murder in Mississippi
-basically stared CR movements (people saw how unfair AA were treated

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Orval Faubus

Federal/Governor of Arkansas

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Ruby Ridges

One of 6 AA to go to a white school to stop segregation
-got spit on

James Meredith

First AA to integrate Ole Miss 1962

Thurgood Marshall

Lawyer for NAACP
-also 1st AA Supreme Court justice (happens later in history)

Civil rights act 1964

LBJ prohibited discrimination of AA in employment, voting, & public accommodations

Civil disobedience

Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust

George Wallace

45th Gov of Alabama

Elizabeth eckford

Little Rock nine
was supposed to go to white HS but the guards did not let her pass

Medgar Evers

-American civil rights activist & NAACP’s first field secretary in Mississippi
-Shot by Byron De La Beckwith (white assassin)

We shall overcome

was the national anthem for the NAACP

John Lewis

one of the principal organizers of the March on Washington in 1963

Linda brown

subject of the lawsuit that led to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision

Bobby Seal and Huey Newton

Founders of Black Panthers Party

Black Panther Party

(1966-1970) -organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality -violence -(patrol Black neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality)

24th amendment

Made it illegal to make AA pay or take a test to vote

Sit ins

-peaceful sit in protest -(4 kids who sat in a restaurant and waited till they finally got served) got arrested instead

Which president made MLK day a holiday

Ronald Reagon

James Earl Ray

- American fugitive - who was convicted of assassinating MLK

integration

-opposite of segregation

A. Phillip Randolph

-black -pressured FDR into banning discrimination in military - and pressured JFK into stoping segregation in military -organized first AA labor union

Jackie Robinson

-baseball player

Plessy .vs. Ferguson

-Supreme Court justice decision that ruled racial segregation laws did not violate US constitution as long as they were “separate but equal” - man was 1/8 AA and tried to ride the white bus but turned into whole civil case - (Said it was fine to segregate as long as it was “separate but equal”)

Ross Barnett

- 53rd Gov of Mississippi -southern democrat who supported racial segregation

Phillip Randolp

- American civil rights activist -1st successful AA led labor union -pressured FDR into banning discrimination in the military - pressured Truman into desegregating the military

Stokely Carmichael

- coined the phrase “black power”

Freedom summer