Segregation & Discrimination
What laws enforced racial separation in the South?
Jim Crow Laws
Organization that challenged racial discrimination in court
NAACP
Leader known for nonviolent civil rights protest
Martin Luther King Jr.
Federal law protecting voting rights, passed in 1965
Voting Rights Act
Activist who challenged nonviolence as the only approach
Malcolm X
Supreme Court case permitting “separate but equal”
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court case against segregated public schools
Brown v. Board
Activist arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
Rosa Parks
City where police attacked peaceful protesters in 1963
Birmingham
Movement emphasizing Black pride and empowerment
Black Power
Tests used to prevent some citizens from voting
Literacy tests
Nine Black students who integrated a school in Arkansas
Little Rock Nine
Yearlong protest against segregated city buses
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Teenager whose murder exposed racial violence in 1955
Emmett Till
Betty Friedan's influential book about women's roles
The Feminine Mystique
Housing discrimination that restricted investment in neighborhoods
Redlining
President who sent troops to protect school integration
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Student organization formed to coordinate civil rights activism
SNCC
Strategy involving peaceful refusal to obey unjust laws
Civil Disobedience / Nonviolent Protest
1969 uprising that became a milestone in LGBTQ+ activism
Stonewall Uprising
Terrorist group that used violence to maintain white supremacy
Ku Klux Klan
Federal law banning discrimination in public accommodations
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Major 1963 demonstration for jobs and freedom
March on Washington
Connection King made between civil rights and national ideals
Freedom and Equality
Long-term wealth effects of discriminatory housing practices
Generational Wealth Inequality