LAST TEST Flashcards
What are the four successes discussed in class of the civil rights movement?
More registered to vote
Blacks were appointed in gov. Positions
Proposal of civil rights bill
March on Washington
What are four setbacks African Americans faced during the civil rights movement?
Kennedy was cautious
Assassination of MLK
Violence against African Americans
Slow pace of school desegregation
What are the three parts of the civil rights act if 1964that would help eliminate discrimination
All people have access to public facilities
Stop discrimination in education
Outlaw job discrimination saws on race, sex, religion, or national origin
When was MLK assassinated
April 4th, 1968
Who assassinated MLK
James earl ray
Where was MLK assassinated
Memphis TN
How did the black panthers hope to achieve equal rights, how was their philosophy different from one of MLK’s?
They believed to fight through violence while MLK didn’t
What was the reaction across the country after the assassination of MLK
Caused riots
What is considered to be the beginning of the civil rights movement
Montgomery bus boycott
Who had the greatest influence on MLK and his thoughts on non violence
Ghandi
In what city did freedoms riders have their bus attacked?
Anniston, AL
What what the nickname of Birmingham
Bombingham
In what two ways did kids help the Montgomery bus boycott
Went to jail and spread the word
How was Rosa parks raised a little different
She was taught that she was the same and equal to everybody else
What was the economic effect on the Montgomery buses during the boycott
Many companies almost lost their businesses
Brown on board of education
Supreme Court case stating that it was unconstitutional to separate school by race
Rosa parks
African-American who boarded bus and sat in the front
MLK
Leader of nonviolent civil rights movement
Nonviolent resistance
Peaceful means to affect change
Eugene bull Conner
Police commissioner of Birmingham Alabama ordered officers to use fire hoses clubs dogs to stop demonstrators
March on Washington
August 1963 civil rights demonstration where Martin Luther King Junior gave his I have a dream speech
Plessy vs Ferguson
Separate but equal public accommodations were legal
Sit in
Refusing to leave area until you get what you want
Nation of Islam
Led by Malcolm X and known as black Muslims
Malcolm X
Minister who popularized the ideas of black Muslims
Racism
To discriminate or have prejudice against someone because of the color of their skin
Black nationalism
Blacks should completely separate themselves from white society and form self governing communities
Black power
Believe that blacks should take back all aspects in their life including social political and economic
Black panthers
Most militant black power group
Lyndon B Johnson
Succeeded Kennedy as president of US and signed the civil rights act of 1964
Memphis Tennessee
City where MLK Junior was assassinated
Little rock
Site of Central high school court ordered desegregation
Freedom riders
Civil rights activists who traveled on charter buses into segregated bus terminals in the south
