The Civil Rights Movement Takes Shape / Sec.1 Key Terms Flashcards
The NAACP attorneys
Thurgood Marshall
In the early 1950s , five school segregation cases from Delaware , Kansas , South Carolina , Virginia , and Washington , D.C. , came together come under the title of …
Brown Vs. Board Of Education
It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High-school . The students became known as …
Little Rock Nine
A seamstress and NAACP worker . Boarded a bus and sat in the front row of the section reserved for black passengers. When the bus became full , the driver told —— and three others to give their seats to white passengers. —— refused
Rosa Parks
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses .
Montgomery bus boycott
A young baptist minister . Had a reputation as a powerful speaker whose words could motivate and inspire listeners
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 the student protest formed the …
Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC)
