The Civil Rights Movement And American Literature Flashcards
What purpose and affect us president Eisenhower was repetition of the phrase in the eyes of serve in his address about raising military intervention to handle school integration in Little Rock Arkansas
His reputation of the phrase “in the eyes of” serves as a reminder to the people of our Kansas to America as a whole witnessed the Little Rock school incident and that many disapproved.
- Brought lighter how do United States appear to the whole world in the lights of the incident
- Reminded the people of our Kansas and segregationist everywhere that the lots of insulation have been passed and that they were expected to accept and follow the law
What is the effect and purpose of the man using prayer as he engages in a debate with the police officer
- helped to present how African Americans at the time were oppressed by white Americans
- his actions elevate the moral purpose of the civil rights movement and show that the police are acting as oppressor which stopped the police form physical force
- his peaceful actions hope to evoke sympathy and
The Southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC)
Formed my Martian Luther king along wi the some other Call leagues. Created to coordinate protest raise funds and train black leaders in nonviolent direct action. 
The Greensboro Sit-in
On February 1, 1964 black college students sat down at the whites only Walsworth lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina and refused to move until they had been served.
Led to sit ins all around America
Student nonviolent coordinating committee ( SNCC) 
Where to organize nonviolent direct action process such as sit-ins, freedom riders, and voter registration drives.
Works closely with the SCLC
Developed “Jail no bail” strategy to highlight its cause and put burden of the cost on their oppressors
Freedom riders
Set up by The Congress of racial equality (CORE)
- Send a mixed group of black and white nonviolent freedom riders to travel by bus to the south testing federal bands on segregated transportation. 
Robert Kennedy
Pressed for federal enforcement of civil rights laws
Fought for new laws to ensure civil rights
Sent troops to protect the freedom riders, as well as black students who wanted to attend schools and universities
James Meredith
Became first African American student at Ole Miss
Birmingham campaign
Campaigns Launched by Martin Luther and the SCLC to help organizations in Birmingham
-Throughout the nonviolent protest police commissioner Eugene Bull Connor a segregationist met the protesters with cattle prods fire hoses to your gas and attack dogs
George Wallace
White supremacist who was pro segregation 
President John F Kennedy
Gave a televise speech advocating for civil rights reform
Proposed a civil right bill to congress that would ban segregation in public places and withhold federal funds from discriminating programs 
The March on Washington
On August 28, 1963 more than 200,000 people of all races marched on Washington DC in support of Kennedy civil rights bill.
