Civil Rights Flashcards
Thurgood Marshall
He was the NAACP attorneys who became Supreme Court justice
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. These students became know as Little Rock nine
Rosa parks
On a December 1, 1955 she refused to give up her seat for a white person so she was arrested
Montgomery bus boycott
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses
Martin Luther king jr
He was a civil rights activist and a strong leader
Sit-in
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave
Student nonviolence coordinating committee
To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the students protests formed the student nonviolence coordinating committee
John F. Kennedy
He became president in 1960- 1963 and then he was shot twice
Freedom rides
CORE organized a series of protests called the freedom rides, in which black and white bus riders traveled together on segregated bus stations in the south
March on Washington
A massive demonstration for civil rights that was on August 28 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was quickly sworn in as president after president Kennedy was assassinated
Civil rights act of 1964
The act banned segregation in public places. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on a 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
The program of domestic reforms that he called the Great society
