Vocabulary Flashcards
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave.
Sit in
When a student protest formed the students nonviolent coordinating committee SNCC in spring
SNCC
Five schools segregation cases from Delaware, Kanas, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. came together under the title
Brown board of education
Thurgood went on in life and became a supreme justice member.
Thurgood Marshall
There were nine black students who were out standing and attended high school.
Little Rock Nine
Boarded a bus and sat down at the front and stood against the person telling them to stand up.
Rosa Parks
A young minister the 26 year old changed the world with his famous speech
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the bus
Boycott