Vocabulary
The opposite of segregation. When all races are mixed together
Integration
African-American historian who is responsible for starting waht became Black History Month
Carter G Woodson
Law that ended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other forms of voter suppression.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who are these guys?
The Black Panthers
(Bobby Seale & Huey Newton)
This event led to the end of slavery in the USA
The Civil War
From a Black or African point of view
Afrocentric
The first Black students to attend an all-white high school in the South.
Little Rock Nine
Law that ended segregation and made discrimination illegal
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What's happening in this picture?
BONUS: Who's the painter?
The Great Migration
Jacob Lawrence
Afrocentirc cutural movement of the 1960s and 70s that included that led to the popularitzation of African clothing as well as hairtyles such as locs, afros, and cornrows.
Black is Beautiful
To break the law in a non-violent manner in order to protest injustice
Civil Disobedience
Four college students who started the sit-in protest movement
Greensboro Four
Supreme Court case that declared segregated schools were unconstitutional
Brown v Board of Education
What's happening in this photo?
Little Rock Nine going into school escorted by soldiers
A period of great African-American artistic achievement centered in NYC and inlcuding poets like Langston Hughes and artists like Aaron Douglas
The Harlem Reniassance
To not shop at a store or refuse to pay for a service as a form of protest.
Boycott
TWO famous people who promoted Black Nationalism
Marcus Garvey & Malcolm X
The president who sent soliders to Little Rock to enable Black students to go to high school
Presient Eisenhower
Who's the little girl?
Ruby Bridges
When millions of African-Americans left the South to move to the cities of the North and West
The Great Migration
When people convicted of a crime lose thier right to vote
Felony Disenfranchisement
America's oldest civil rights organization which helped organize the Montgomery Busy Boycott as well as brought the lawsuit that would lead to the Supreme Court case of Brown v Board of Education
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
Supreme Court Case that overturned part of the Voting Rights Act and led to an INCREASE voter suppression
Shelby v Holder
These picutres are from what famous protest in Alabama?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The first successful protest against segregation
Montgomery Bus Boycot