Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
What was the civil rights movement?
An 100yr struggle for freedom
What we the three goals of the civil rights movements
Freedom from discrimination
Equal opportunities in employment education and housing
The right to vote
Dred Scott Supreme court decision
No rights which a white man was bound to respect
13th amendment
Abolished slavery
14th amendment
Granted citizenship to blacks
15 amendment
Gave blacks the right to vote
Reconstruction
Whites took back control of the south, blacks relegated to 2nd class citizens
How were blacks kept from voting?
Through poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation by the KKK
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation laws
Please vs Ferguson
Supreme Court ruling why establish separate but equal and made segregation legal
Book t Washington
Believed in gradual equality for blacks through education. Found the Tuskegee Institute
WEB Du Bois
Demanded immediate equality helped establish the NAACP
Marcus Garvey
Back to Africa movement be proud of your race
Harlem Renaissance
New Negro movement that stressed art, poetry, theater, and music promoted black pride Harlem nyc
After the War what did blacks demand?
More rights and better pay
Philip Randolph
Started the National Negro Congress world toward civil rights legislation
President Harry S Truman
Integrated the military
1950’s was known as
A movement of young people
Brown vs aboard of education
Supreme Court ruling that challenged separate but equal and ended segregation in school int gyration became the law
Thurgood Marshall
Lawyer in the case and went to become the first African American Supreme Court justic
Rosa parks
Refused to sit in the back of the bus first challenge to Jim Crow laws
Little Rock 9
First 9 Black students to integrate into high school Protected by the 101 airborne
Ruby Bridges
1st Black student to be integrated into elementary school—New Orleans
Martín Luther King Jr
The main leader of the civil rights movement a nonviolent movement whose goal was to get civil rights for blacks
What was MLK jr movement based,on
Mohandas Gandhis in India
sncc?
Student nonviolent coordinating committee—students who staged protests in the form of sit ins, freedom rides, marches, etc
Freedom riders
Fought segregation on public transportation
Marcho n Washington DC
MLK I have a dram speech watershed event of the movements turning point
What does peresident jfk do?
He endorses a new civil rights legislation but is assassinated before it can pass
President Lyndon B Johnson
Gets the Civil rights act of 1964 passed which outlawed discrimination and segregation based on race
Freedom summer
Attempt to get African Americans to register to vote
Bloody Sunday
Peaceful march is attacked by police in Selma Alabama
What was the result of Bloody Sunday?
The voting Rights Act of 1956 which outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests
Malcom X
Malcom Little leader of Nation of Islam, was a critic of the nonviolent movement, preached that bloodshed revolution was necessary to gain equality
Assassinated by the Nation of Islam
Who was the leader of the Black Power Black Panther Movemeng
Stocklehy Carmichael this was also violent
Who assassinated MLKJR?
James Earl Jones in Memphis Tennessee
What was the result of MLKJR’s death , and Malcom X and Stockley Carmichael Philosophies?
The us was rocked with the worst race riots in history
Between 1966-70 what happened?
70 cities burned (La, Detroit, NYC)
Barack Obama?
The first black president
Why is the civil rights movement important?
It established the idea that discrimination was unjust and would no longer be tolerated
Finally brought us closer to the principles that our nation was founded on
