The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape Flashcards
Who went on to become Supreme Court justice.
Thurgood Marshall
In the early 1950s, five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C., came together under the title of
Brown Vs. Board of Education
It allowed nine outstanding black students became known as the
Little Rock Nine
Boarded a bus and sat in the front row of the section reserved for black passenger
Rosa Parks
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses
Montgomery bus boycott
A young Baptist minister the 26year old king
Martin Luther king jr
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave
Sit-in
To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of student protests formed the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee