Important People
A prominent civil rights leader and Baptist minister who began his civil rights journey during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and whose assassination in 1968 devastated millions.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
Still seen as one of the largest political protests in American history, this is the event where MLK gave his iconic "I have a dream" speech
What is The March on Washington
A sweeping civil rights act that prohibited discrimination based on race, ethnicity, color, gender, or nationality
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This civil rights group was founded in 1909, and fought against racism and segregation in the court system
What is NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
A minister for the Nation of Islam who rose in popularity in 1964 for preaching black nationalism and protection against white aggression
What is Malcolm X?
This event was seen as a defining moment in the desegregation of schools. It involved 9 black students trying to integrate a traditionally all-white high school
What is Little Rock Nine?
The Supreme Court case that legally prohibited segregation in schools, contradicting the previous case Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Was a militant civil rights group in the late 1960s that was prominent in California. Pushed black pride and black nationalism, but often had violent confrontations with police.
What is Black Panthers?
Her actions on a Montgomery bus sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which led to the Supreme Court ruling against segregation on buses
What is Rosa Parks
This event in Montgomery, Alabama was sparked by Rosa Parks, and led to not only the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr. as a upcoming civil rights leader, but the legal desegregation of buses.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
This act prohibited the use of literacy and IQ tests for voting registration, eliminated poll taxes in federal elections, and gave stronger voting registration rights to the federal government.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A civil rights group headed by multiple Baptist ministers. They advocated for protesting for civil rights in a nonviolent way.
What is SCLC(Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
He was a black civil rights lawyer who worked for the NAACP and the Brown v. Board of Education case. HE became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
What is Thurgood Marshall?
This was a political campaign to increase black voting registration in Mississippi in 1964
What is Freedom Summer?
Racial segregation that is required by law
What is de jure segregation?
A student lead civil rights organization that protested civil rights in nonviolent ways. Famous for popularizing sit-ins as a form of nonviolent protests
What is SNCC(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
He was the governor of Arkansas during the Little Rock Nine event.
What is Governor Faubus?
This was a political campaign to raise attention of lack of voting right protection for black people in the south. Faced a lot of police brutality, the first day gained the nickname "Bloody Sunday".
What is the March on Selma
A committee put together by President Johnson to find out why there were race riots happening across the United States.
What is the Kerner Commission?
Equality group that focused on nonviolent ways to protest for civil rights. Used methods like sit-ins and coordinated the Freedom Rides.
What is CORE(Congress of Racial Equality)