Activist Figures
A baseball legend who served on the NAACP's board of directors and also aided in the founding of an African American owned bank
Who is Jackie Robinson
This act was signed on September 9, 1957, this act allowed all people even people of color to have the ability to vote. It was signed by President Eisenhower, also the act made it where any person could be prosecuted who tried to stop a person from voting.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957
This guy led the march on Washington but during the 1950's he sparked the bus boycott, laying right for rights for African Americans
Who is MLK
segregation is the belief that a person should be separated because of there skin color
What court case said "separate but not equal"
Brown v. Board of education
She is known for African American civil rights activism, when someone thinks of civil rights a person might think of her, in 1955 in Alabama she refused to give up her seat to a white male, and because of this it started revolts and anger through people fueled by racism, because of this act she is not associate with the 1950 civil right acts that were
Who is Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, this woman refused to stand up on a bus after work, at this time colored people had to stand and or give up a spot if a white person got on a bus, and even knowing this she did not want to get up because she was tired but also she did not believe that she had to give up her spot to a person just because they are white.
What are the events of Rosa Parks
Who is James Farmer
What is the definition of civil rights?
At the age of 14, this African-American boy was tortured and killed because he offended a white woman in a grocery store
Emmet Till
He was the first black Supreme Court Justice member when the Senate confirmed him on August 30, 1967, he is known for the Brown V. Board of Education which he argued before the Supreme Court between 1952 and 1953, he overturned the "separate but equal" idea and acknowledge that segregation diminished African American students self-esteem
Who is Thurgood Marshall
This is associated with the Brown v. Board of Education, these people were being violated because of segregation, because of this they took it to court saying that it is unconstitutional
What is the Little Rock Nine
Father of Black History Month, he was the first African American scholar to celebrate the contributions the black community has made to the united states.
Who is Carter G. Woodson
How are Jim Crow laws relevant during the 1940's / 1950's
Because of the Jim Crow laws, segregation was major it kept African Americans from getting there full rights
What was the nickname of the Civil Rights movement?
The second reconstruction
The first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal, she competed in track and field at Tuskegee University. At the Olympics, she set a record for the high jump at 5'6 1/8", she later received a medal from King George VI
Who is Alice Coachman
An organized group of students on the University of Chicago in 1942. This group fought back aghenst separation and because of that it majorly aided in the office against segregation
This man was a major contributor the the 50's civil rights movement, after he graduated college he persued a career for standing up for African Americans' rights but sadly was assassinated.
Who is Medgar Evers
What is it called when a person revolts because of a hard cultural belief.
Ex: this was seen a lot during the Civil Rights movement
Civil Disobedience
This was signed to stop the implementation of colored people, more than 100 people signed this document.
Southern Manifesto
He grew up in a military family, after high school he entered West Point Military Academy, and in 1941 he finally got his opportunity to fly, in March 1942 he earned his wings and got and achieved his dreams of becoming a pilot, and by 1943 he commanded a unit of 1,000 black pilots who later would be known as the Tuskegee Airmen, during the war, they sunk more than 40 ships including a destroyer, and never lost a bomber. He served 40 years in the military eventually becoming a four-star general in being the first black general in the Air Force.
Who is Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
This court case fought back against segregation, inside of this court case it was said the segregation is unconstitutional and taking away peoples basic rights
What is the Brown v. Board of Education
This guy started the bus boycott, because of this it laid way for MLK who is one of the most influential people in African American civil right movement
Who is E. D. Nixon
In the Declaration of Independence, it says "all men are created equal". Explain how this belief could not have been seen during this time period
Even knowing that in the DI, it says all men are created equal there is still segeration, implying that they did not belive that all men were created equal
What is the boy cott that occurred and it also ended the segregation that was occurring on public buses.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott