Civil Rights Flashcards
Brown Vs. Board
Brown was fighting about segregated schools, and the case went to the Supreme Court, they overruled plessy Vs Ferguson and said separate but equal was not equal. Both Races should be put in same school
SCLC
southern Christian Leadership Conference
Emmet Till
14 year old boy who got beaten to death for catcalling a cashier
Rosa Parks
Girl who sat on a bus and didn’t give up her seat
CORE
congress of racial Equality
Freedom Rides
People who rode on busses to the south to make sure they were keeping the busses de-segregated. One bus got bombed
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from MLK in jail saying it was segregated
confrontation at Little Rock
Little Rock 9 were prevented for mentee ring high school by a guard, led to a legal battle that ended in with integration of the school
MLK’s background
Got his inspo from the priest Martin Luther, ghandi, and god
Huge activist
Made a change
Chief Justice of Supreme Court in 1954
Earl Warren
First head of FBI
Edgar Hoover
First AA Justice
thurgood Marshall
Field Sec of NAACP
Medger Evers
Who created black power
Stokely Carmichael