The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1975

Question 1

The Civil Rights Movement

Answer 1

-Time when African Americans worked to receive the rights that they were promised during reconstruction that the Southern states took away.

Question 2

Civil Disobedience

Answer 2

• The act of purposely breaking an unjust law and openly lovingly accepting your punishment.
• Led by Martin Luther King and advocated about in his A letter from a Birmingham Jail.

Question 3

Brown v. Board of Ed of Topeka, Kansas

Answer 3

• A Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy v. ferguson and the “Separate but equal” is unconstitutional as “separate but equal is inherently unequal.
• Lawyers used 2 arguments, the psychological affects on children of segregation and the unfair commute of Linda Brown.

Question 4

Rosa Parks

Answer 4

• Refused to giver up her seat on the bus and started Montgomery Bus Boycott. Was an activist in the NAACP and was waiting for her opportunity to be arrested.
• Her arrest helped lead to the bus boycott and the Civil Rights Movement going national.

Question 5

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 5

• After the arrest of Rosa Parks, the African Americans of Montgomery, Alabama boycotted the busses to demand integration of the busses.
• It went on for over a year, helped to integrate the busses and made Martin Luther King a national leader of the Movement.