Civil Rights Flashcards
The first 9 black students that attended a desegregated school
Little Rock 9
An NAACP worker that wouldn’t give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks
An event where people stopped riding the bus.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A baptist minister that was a powerful speaker
MLK or Martin Luther King
A demonstration which protesters sit and refuse to leave
Sit-in
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
SNCC
President of the US during some of the Civil Rights Movement
JFK or John F Kennedy
A series of protests where bus riders rode to segregated bus stops.
Freedom Rides
A massive demonstration for Civil Rights.
March on Washington
President after JFK assassination
Lyndon B Johnson
Banned public segregation
Civil rights act of 1964
Gave government power to protect African Americans voting rights
Voting rights act of 1965
A program of domestic reforms
Great society
African American independence
Black power
Inspired black power
Malcolm X