Skills Check Flashcards (With Clarification)
What was the campaign where SNCC and CORE worked in the south encouraging African Americans to register to vote? This, along with the March from Selma to Montgomery, would lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Freedom Summer
What were the laws that pushed for the segregation of public facilities in the South?
Jim Crow Laws
Who was the Alabama seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man? This would also start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks
Who was the lawyer who directed a team of NAACP lawyers who won 29 of the 32 cases they argued before the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
1896 court case that declared that segregation WAS constitutional as long as the facilities were quote ‘separate but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Governor of Arkansas originally supported desegregation, but because of a close reelection, he denied the Little Rock Nine Access to Central High School in 1957.
Orval Eugene Faubus
Baptist minister from Montgomery, Alabama who led the nonviolent arm of the civil rights movement and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The organization, led by MLK, promoted ideas of civil disobedience through means of non-violent protests.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
1954 court case that struck down segregation in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
non-violent civil rights activists who protested segregation on interstate buses
Freedom Riders
form of non-violent protest used by civil rights activists to protest segregated lunch counters
sit-in
In the late 1800s, the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson had created . . .
a legal justification for segregation laws
The 13th Amendment stated
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
The 14th Amendment stated
anyone born in the United States is a citizen and has the rights of a citizen
The 15th Amendment stated
that all African-American men had the right to vote
