Civil Rights Mobement Flashcards
Segregation
The separation of people by the color of there skin.
Discrimination
The act of being mean and taking things away from someone or a group of people for no good reason.
Right
Something a person is allowed to do.
Civil rights
The rights Guaranteed to a person by the government.
Civil rights movement
A time in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s where people fart for equal rights and justice for all people no matter their skin color.
Boycott
The act of not doing something (protesting) in order to get something in return.
Montgomery bus boycott
A boycott organized by Martin Luther King junior in 1954 where are African-Americans refused to ride the bus is in Montgomery Alabama because RosaParks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. People boycotted the buses until the Supreme Court said that segregation on public transportation Such as buses was illegal.
Freedom Riders
In 1961, there were a group of African-Americans (as many as 1000) at one point who wanted to see if the buses, and trains were really the segregated by writing on buses all over the stuff. They brought attention to the civil rights movement. They had to deal with a lot of violence from racist people.
March on Washington
A large peaceful protest organized by Martin Luther King Junior worth 250,000 people marched in Washington DC Asking for justice and equality for all people know matter their skin color. This event bright a lot of attention to the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Junior gave his I have a dream speech during the event.
Rosa parks
A famous African-American woman who refused To give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, this started the Montgomery bus boycott.
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer helping Linda brown during the brown versus board of Education trial. He was also the first African-American to appointed to the US supreme court.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was the best known civil rights leader. He helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, participated in the March from Selma to Montgomery, helped President Johnson create the civil rights act of 1964, and organized and spoke at the march on Washington. He believed in non-violent protest.
Brown versus board of education
Brown versus board and did segregation in public schools in 1954. African-Americans could now go to white schools.
Civil rights act of 1964
The civil rights act of 1964 disaggregated all public places such as restaurants in buildings. In addition, the law ended discrimination in the workplace.
Voting rights act of 1965
The voting rights act of 1965 got rid of pull taxes , and literacy test in order to vote.