civil rights movement Flashcards
Jim crow laws
Enforced racial segregation
MLK
Social rights activist made his famous “I Have a Dream speech”. Organized peaceful protests.
Thurgood marshall
Civil rights lawyer who used courts to fight against Jim Crow laws and dismantle segregation
Rosa Parks
Arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man, creating the Montgomery bus boycott
Black power
insisted that African Americans should have power over their schools, businesses, and local government.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Started by rosa parks , a 13 month protest that ended with U.S supreme court ruling that segregation on buses was unconcsitutional
Brown v. board of education
Ended the seperate but equal doctorine
civil rights act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Voting rights act of 1965
federal law encated in 1965 to remove race based restrictions on voting
desegregation
the elimination of laws, customs, or practices under which people from different ethnic groups are restricted to separate public facilities.
NAACP
Created to ensure political, and educational, equality, of minority group citizens of states and eliminated race prejudice
Littl rock nine
9 ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in battle of civil rights
March on washington
In August 1963, over 200,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C to draw attention to the inequalities.
Sit- In
a from of direct action that includes one or more people occupying an area for a protest.
Affirmitive action
procedures to eliminated unlawful discrimination among applicats and prevent discrimination in the future
