Lesson 44 Vocab Flashcards
an organization formed by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1957 to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social and political goals
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
a 1955 boycott that resulted in the integration of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery Bus Boycott
peaceful protest or noncooperation with authorities to achieve social or political goals
Nonviolent Resistance
a civil rights protest in which protesters sit down in a public place and refuse to move, thereby causing the business to lose customers
Sit-in
a civil rights organization formed in 1960 by college students, who organized sit-ins and other nonviolent protests
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
the nonviolent refusal to obey a law that the protester considers to be unjust
Civil Disobedience
political acts, including protests of all types, designed to have an immediate impact
Direct Action
civil rights protests in which Black people and White people rode interstate buses together in 1961 to test whether southern states were complying with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation on interstate transport
Freedom Rides
a 1963 protest in which more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the nation’s capital for “jobs and freedom” and the passage of civil rights legislation
March on Washington
a landmark act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin; the most important civil rights law since Reconstruction
Civil RIghts Act of 1964
a tactic in which a member of a legislature speaks at great length to prevent legislative action
Filibuster
a 1964 campaign by CORE and SNCC to register Black voters in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
an act of Congress outlawing literacy tests and other tactics that had long been used to deny African Americans the right to vote
Voting Rights Act of 1965
