Terms
Laws that legally segregated African Americans in the south after Reconstruction
Jim Crowe Laws
was stabbed in NYC by a "demented black woman".
King
9 students who needed the 101st Airborne's help just to attend school
Little Rock
Voting Rights Act
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board
Plessy v Ferguson
wrote a famous letter from a jail in this city
Birmingham
allowed schools to be "separate but equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
Founder of CORE
James Farmer
the successful bus boycott
Montgomery
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Assassination of JFK
Assassination of Martin Luther King
JFK
Was assassinated in this city
Memphis
started at lunch counters in Greensboro North Carolina
sit-ins
First African American to attend Ole Miss
James Meredith
I Have a Dream speech
Washington DC
March on Washington
Civil Rights Bill passed by Congress
King is assassinated
March on Washington
Was assassinated by this man
James Earl Ray
Overturned the Plessy court case
Brown v Board of Education
Founder of the Nation of Islam
Elijah Muhammad
Eugene "Bull" Connor
Birmingham
Brown v Board
Jim Crowe Laws start
Letter from a Birmingham Jail written
Jim Crowe
Led a voting rights march across the Edmund Pettis bridge in this city
Selma
term used for the summer period when activists registered black people to vote
Freedom Summer
convicted felon who joined the Nation of Islam while in prison
Malcolm X
"If I had sneezed" speech
Memphis
James Meredith gets into Ole Miss
Little Rock Nine
Civil Rights Bill passed
Little Rock Nine
Made this city his home, and where his funeral took place
Atlanta