Unit 5:: The Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Supreme Court case that upheld a Louisiana segregation law on the theory that as long as the accommodations between the racially segregated facilities were equal, the equal protection clause was not violated. The Court’s ruling effectively established the constitutionality of racial segregation and the notion of “separate but equal.”
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court ruling reversing the policy of segregation from Plessy v Ferguson, declaring that seperate can never be equal and a year later ordered the integration of all public schools with all deliberate speed
Little Rock Nine
black schoolchildren who decided to attend a previously all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas; because riots were expected and occurring, Eisenhower sent federal protection for these Little Nine
SNCC
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)-a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsi
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference) used christian pricipals in order to fight segregation–nonviolent, consisted of black prechers, and had alot of influence
Nonviolence
form of protest in which protesters do not resist or fight back when attacked.
Sit-Ins
protests by black college students
Freedom Rides
Civil rights protest in which a racially mixed group of protesters challenged racially segregation bus terminals.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Protest in 1955-1956 by african Americas against racial segregation in the bus system of montgomery, Alabama.
Freedom Summer
This was a campaign in the united states launched in june to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi.
Selma March(es)
Blacks sat in line waiting to vote and officers were arresting people.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Law that outlawed discrimination in a number of areas.
Voting Rights Bill of 1965
Law aimed at a reducing barriers to African Americans voting
President Eisenhower
34th president, leader of allied forces in world war 2, he promoted business and continued social programming.
Malcolm X
African American leader during the 1950s and 1960s eloquent spokesperson for African Americans self-sufficiency; assassinated in 1965.
Governor Orval Faubus
was the 36th Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967. desegregation of the Little Rock School District during the Little Rock Crisis.
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
African American Civil Rights leader from the mid 1950’s.
Rosa Parks
She sat on the montgomery bus and she said that she was not going to move seats for the white people.
Governor George Wallace
Third party candidate for president; focused his campaign on issues of blue-collar anger in the north and racial tension.
“Bull” Connor
was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama.
Central High School
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The March on Washington
1963 civil rights demonstration in Washington D.C.
Birmingham
Alabama
