Civil Rights Test Flashcards
The court case that allowed seperate but equal facilities for African Americans
Plessy v. Ferguson
Laws that segregated African Americans from the rest of society in the south
Jim Crow Laws
A group that would support court cases intended to overturn segregation
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People( NAACP)
A form of protest where people would sit somewhere and refuse to leave. The purpose was to shame restaurant managers into integrating their restaurants
Sit ins
The chief counsel and director of its legal defense and education fund of the NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
The court case that said segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
Brown V. Board of Education
When a group of 101 senators signed an act denouncing the supreme court’s ruling. Calling it an abuse of judicial power. Not happy about Brown V. Board of Education
Southern Manifesto
A man who believed in using nonviolence and to disobey unjust laws to end segregation and racism
Martin Luther King’s beliefs about how to end segregation and racism
A conference where the purpose was to eliminate segregation from American Society and to encourage African Americans to register to vote.
Purpose of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
When a govenor reacted to integration of schools by ordering troops to prevent black children into a white school.
Little Rock Crisis
Eisenhower sent U.S army troops and federalized the Army National guard
How Eisenhower dealt with the Little Rock Crisis
When teams of African Americans and whites traveled into the south to draw attention to the south’s refusal to integrate bus terminals
The Freedom riders and their goal
A group that played a key role in desegregating public facilities. Also helped African Americans register to vote
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee(SNCC) and their purpose
Began demonstrations because he believed it was the only way to get President Kennedy to support him
Why King decided to begin demonstratoins in Birmingham
The letter he wrote in Jail after protests. Explained that the protests brought to the surface the hidden tension between whites and blacks
Letter from a Birmingham Jail written by MLK