export_civil rights Flashcards
Plessy vs. Ferguson
1896
established “separate but equal”
Brown vs. Board of Education
1954
- argued by Thurgood Marshall
- overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson
Civil rights act of 1957
voting right
Civil rights act of 1964
Desegregated public places
voting rights act of 1965
outlawed literacy tests
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
non violent civil disobedience
Gandhi principles
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
founded 1908 by W.E.B Dubois &Ida B. Wells
SNCC
Student nonviolent coordinating committee
freedom rides
Proved that Americans wanted their voice heard
Black Panther Party
Self defense party made to patrol African American neighborhoods and protect the residents from police
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Montgomery bus boycott
Rob. F. Kennedy
sent troops to get blacks in to school
wanted to end segregation as a whole