Civil Rights Flashcards
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Blacks didn’t ride the bus for 381 days until they let blacks sit where ever
Children’s March
Children filled up the jails in Birmingham until the ended segregation
Little Rock 9
9 kids went to little rock high school even though one got acid thrown in their eyes
Civil Rights Movement
The movement where blacks were trying to get equal rights
Eisenhowers role in the integration of little rock high school
He ordered the 101st airborne division to insure safety for them
Sit ins
Blacks would be beaten for sitting where whites wanted to sit
Freedom rides
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses. They had their tires flattened, they were lit on fire and the people were beaten
Bloody Sunday
The blacks first attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery. They were stopped 6 blocks down by police and were beaten
Gwen Webb
Marched in Birmingham
James bevel
Leeder of the 1960s civil rights movement
John F Kennedy
President during the movement
Bull Connor
Commissioner of public safety in Birmingham
Rosa Parks
She lit the flame to the Montgomery bus boycott by sitting in the white section of a bus
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Was killed trying to save his mother and grandparent from getting beaten
Andrew Goodman
Was killed by KKK, was helping registration drives
Michael Schwerner
Was killed by KKK for being a civil rights worker
James Chaney
Was killed by KKK with three other civil rights workers
Emmet Louis Till
Killed when he was 14 for talking to a white women
Voting rights act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
March on Washington
Over 250000 people marched, it ended with MLK giving his I Have A Dream Speech
MLKs I Have A Dream Speech
Was supposed to be 4 minutes ended up being 16, end of March on Washington
MLK and his non violence philosophy
MLK no matter what the racist would do he woudnt fight back and do the right thing
