Civil rights dates Flashcards
1
Q
Civil Rights Act
A
1964
2
Q
Brown vs Board
A
1954
3
Q
Jim Crow Laws
A
1870s-1965
4
Q
Plessy Vs Ferguson
A
1896
5
Q
Greensboro sit ins
A
Feb 1 1960
6
Q
Rosa Parks bus boycott
A
December 1 1955
7
Q
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A
December 2 1955
8
Q
Freedom rides
A
May 1961
9
Q
Selma March
A
1965
10
Q
March on Washington
A
1963
11
Q
Historical perspective for NAACP role during Brown vs Board
A
Mark Newman ‘NAACP owed much of its success to FDR’s liberalism’
12
Q
Historical perspective to contradict on Brown vs Board
A
Michael Klarman: Brown “was a relatively unimportant motivating factor for the civil rights movement” and it generated a vicious white backlash
13
Q
A
