Civil rights movement Flashcards
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
democratic president, irish catholic, 9 siblings, wealthy because of prohibition, competitive family, health problems back injuries, very political family, went to Harvard, 6 congress, 8 senate, only prez to win pulitzer prize, “new frontier”,
was prez during march on Washington, nuclear test ban, peace corps, bay of pigs cuban missile crisis, trade expansion act
assassination-killed 11-22-1963, warren in charge of the investigation of his death
Lyndon B Johnson
kennedy’s vp, executive order 11246 which enforced affirmative action, you have to higher so many minorities per highering, civil rights act 1964
watts riots
august 11-16, neighborhood in los angeles, lots of looting and burning places
eisenhower
little rock desegregation, he tried to be neutral in brown v board but regretted appointment of earl warren
who cofounded Black Panthers in october of 1966
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
24th amendment
poll tax abolished
Medgar Evers
NAACP field secretary, murdered-2 trials in 64 no conviction until 30 years later-Byron De La Beekwith
CORE
61 they began their bus trip in may, the congress of racial equality, “freedom riders”, started north, protesting segregation of bus terminals
civil rights act 1964
prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in government jobs
Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech, what year
1963, i have a dream
james earl ray
assassinated MLK Jr
“letter from Birmingham”
written by MLK while he was in jail the first time, he wanted people to know that they have a moral duty to fight unjust laws
civil rights act of 1991
November, by Ronald Reagan, meant to strengthen all pre existing ones
loving v virginia
about interracial marriage prohibition, end of trail said that it is unconstitutional to prohibit marriage
rosa parks
montgomery bus boycott, december 1955, she was raised a little different, fought for what was right
Malcom X’s attitudes later influenced the militant approach to black power adopted by SNCC under the leadership of
Stokely Carmichael
How were African Americans kept from voting?
literacy tests, poll tax
using methods patterned after those used by _, Dr. King and the SCLC taught civil rights activists how to use nonviolent resistance
Gandhi
what was Birmingham’s nickname in the summer of ‘63 and why?
Bombingham. because of racial unrest, bombings, and attacks
why was it important that the children were protesting? How did american react?
because the parents couldn’t work or they’d lose their jobs and houses, also no one expected it to be the children
there was a new sympathy towards the movement since it was children
Eugene “Bull” Connor
Children’s march, well known racist, ordered the use of dogs and firehoses on the people’s protesting, chairman of public safety, helped civil rights gain sympathy
Faubus
governor of Arkansas, tried to keep the little rock nine out, disobeyed federal court by sending in guards,
earl warren
on supreme court, eisenhower didn’t like him, in charge of investigation of jfk assassination
