Civil Rights Vocab Flashcards
1.Brown V. Board of Education
In the early 1950s, five schools segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together under the title of Brown V. Board of education
2.Little Rock nine
It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High school.
3.Montgomery bus boycott
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses
4.Martin Luther King Jr.
A young Baptist minister. The 26-year old King had already had a reputation as a powerful speaker whose words can motivate any one who would listen.
5.Rosa parks
She boarded a bus and sat in the front row of the section reserved for black passengers. When the bus became full, the driver told Parks and three others to give their seats to white passengers Parks refused.
6.Sit-in
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refused to leave.
7.Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the students protests formed it.
8.Freedom rides
CORE organized a series of protests called the Freedom Ride. In which black and white bus riders traveled together to segregate bus stations in the south
9.March on Washington
A massive demonstration for civil rights
10.Lyndon B.Johnson
Was sworn in as president
11.Civil rights act of 1964
The act banned segregation in public places. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin
12.Voting Rights act of 1965
Which Johnson signed into the law in August. This law gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans’ voting rights.
13..John F. Kennedy (J.F.K)
Won the election in 1960, he became the youngest person to be elected president of the United States.
15.Great Society
This program is domestic reforms that president Johnson called it the Great Society.
16.Black Power
Movement, which called for African American independence.
