Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
Watts
Major riot that broke out over minor incidents
La riot
Looting and burning buildings
Eisenhower
President during Little Rock 9 thing
JFK
President during children’s march
LBJ
Jfks VP
Huey newton and bobby seale
Co founders of blackpanthers
Violent
24th amendment
Prohibits poll taxes
How African Americans were kept from voting
Literacy tests
Poll taxes
Medgar Evers
NAACP field secretary
Was assassinated
CORE
Congress racial equality
Started in the north
Protested bus turmoils
Both black and whites
Civil rights act 1964
Passed by LBJ
What was the name of Martin Luther King speech?
I have a dream
Earl Warren
Appointed to Supreme Court by Eisenhower
Pres. E regretted his decision
Faubus
Governed during little rock 9
Stokely Carmichael
SNCC leader
James Earl Ray
Convicted for killing MLK
Letter from Birmingham
MLKs letter from jail
Gandhi
Dr king used methods patterned after him
Rosa parks
Started the bus boycott
Civil rights act 1991
Passed by Ronald reagen
Loving vs Virginia
Prohibiting interracial marriage deemed unconstitutional
Children’s march
Thousands of kids willingly walked down the streets protesting to get arrested
Youngest was 4
They sang in jail
They were interrogated
When released some went right back to jail
Bull Connor
Police chief
Hella rough and mean
Nickname of Birmingham in summer of 1963
Bombingham
Why children?
If the parents protested then they could get fired,fined, or their house and cars could be repossessed
Americas response
Sympathized with civil rights movement
Malcolm x
Founded black pride
