Civil Rights Flashcards

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Linda brown

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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

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Rosa parks

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Rosa parks boarded a bus and sat in the front row reserved for black passengers when the bus got to full the driver asked Rosa parks and three other passengers to get up for white men she refused and was sent to jail

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Montgomery bus boycott

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Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the busses

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Martin Luther king jr

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A young baptist minister with the age of 26 and spoke the speech “I have a dream”

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SNCC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee was formed I’m the spring of 1960

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Sit in

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A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave

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Little Rock nine

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It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High school. These students became known as the Little Rock nine

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Thur good Marshall

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Went on to become Supreme Court justice and jack Greenberg led the courtroom battles against segregation

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Brown vs the board of education

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In the early 1950s five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington DC came together under the brown vs board of education

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