Civil Rights Flashcards
Cesar Chavez
Organized and fought for migrant farm worker’s rights, many of whom were Mexican American
SLLC
Southern Christian leadership conference, founded in 1957 by Southern ministers fighting for equal rights led by Martin Luther King
Orval Faubus
Governor of Arkansas that ordered national guard soldiers to block entrance of nine black students to Central high school later overruled by President Eisenhower
Montgomery bus boycott
Led to the federal court ruling that segregation on city buses violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment
Plessy v Ferguson
The court ruling that ‘‘separate but equal’’ was constitutional
Rosa parks
Refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, local leaders organized a boycott in protest
Letter from Birmingham Jail
King explained why African American could no longer wait for equality
March on Washington
Organize 1963 to convince Congress to pass civil rights legislation highlighted by famous ‘‘I have a dream speech’’ by Martin Luther King Junior
George Wallace
Alabama governor that blocked to African-American students from attending the University of Alabama
Jackie Robinson
Broke the color barrier in major-league you baseball playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Civil right act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or ethnic origin in public places and in employment
Thurgood Marshall
Attorney for NAACP Successfully argued the brown v. Board of Ed case and would later become the first African-American supreme court justice.
Freedom writers
Activists used busses to protest Segregation in interstate terminals
Malcolm X
Was leading black Muslim who believed that equality near require the use of violence to be achieved
Brown V. Board of education
Landmark court case ruled that segregated schools were ‘‘inherently unequal’’ Ordered their integration ‘‘With all deliberate speed’’
Sit in movement
Begin in Greensboro, North Carolina when 4 students sat at a “whites only’’ Lunch counter
24th amendment
Forbid states from imposing a poll tax in order to vote in federal elections
Affirmative action
Federal program designed to actively recruit minorities for employment
SNCC
Gave young African Americans a greater voice in the civil rights movement organize sit in the demonstrations in the south
Martin Luther King Jr.
Led the 13 month long boycott of public buses, successfully ending the city’s segregated bus system
Billy Graham
Was a white Christian preacher and outspoken opponent of segregation once paid to bail out Martin Luther King, Junior out of jail
Black power movement
Group that believed that African-Americans should rely more on themselves a controlling their own communities and businesses
16th Street Baptist Church
Site of bombing which killed for young African-American children and injured many more
Little rock nine
Name given to the nine black students that attempted to enroll in ‘‘all white’’ Central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
