Civil Rights Flashcards
Thurgood Marshall
He was the NAACP’s attorney.
Brown v. Board of Education
In the early 1950s, five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together under the title of Brown v. Board of Education.
Little Rock Nine
It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High School.
Rosa Parks
She got arrested when the bus driver told her to give her seat to a white person a she didn’t.
Montgomery bus boycott
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses.
Martin Luther King Jr.
He stopped segregated and he led the MIA. He gave his famous speech “I have a dream.”
sit-in
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to lead.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the students protests formed this. The SNCC activists trained protesters and organized civil rights demonstrations.
John F. Kennedy
Won the election of 1960 and he became the youngest person ever elected president of the United States.
Freedom Rides
CORE organized a series of protests, in which black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the South.
March on Washington
A massive demonstration for civil rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was Vice President and when Kennedy got shot and killed he was quickly in as president.
Civil Rights act
1964, The act banned segregation in public places. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which Johnson signed into law in August. This law gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans’ voting rights.
Great Society
President Johnson’s program of domestic reforms that he called the Great Society.
