Civil rights movement Flashcards
Reasons why America declared independence in 1776
What is the Black Power Movement?
African-Americans, or blacks, changed their views about the manner by which they should achieve economic power, political power, and civil rights in 1960
Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 Causes
Rosa Parks was returning home from work on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Martin Luther King
On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and Martin Luther King made his famous I have a dream speech to a worldwide audience.
Malcom X
He was a political activist and is most well known for his work as a leader during the civil rights moVement in America.
He suffered racial abuse from the KKK’s
Segregation & Jim Crow Laws;
they wanted to separate white and black people.