Vocab Flashcards
Thurgood Marshall
The naacp attorneys who went on to become a Supreme Court justice.
Brown v. Board of education
In the early 1950 five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington DC came together under the title of Brown v. Board of education.
Little Rock nine
It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend central high school. These students became known as the Little Rock nine.
Rosa parks
Rosa parks boarded a bus and sat in the front row of the black passengers and when the bus was full the driver told parks to give her seat up.
Montgomery bus boycott
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses
Martin Luther King Jr.
A young baptist minister was a person who helped with segregation.
Sit in
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refused to leave.
Coordinating committee
To continue the struggle for civil rights the leaders of the students protest formed the student nonviolent coordinating committee.
John F Kennedy
He won the election in 1960 for president and became the youngest person ever to be elected for president.
Freedom rides
Black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the south.
March on Washington
A massive demonstration for civil rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was quickly sworn in as president.
Civil rights act of 1964
The act banned segregation in public places it also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis.
Voting rights act of 1965
Johnson signed into a law in August this law gave he federal government new powers to protect African Americans voting rights.
Great society
His program of domestic reform
