key events in the civil rights movement
This supreme court case overturned the doctrine separate but equal
Brown v. Board of Education
MLK Jr.
This form of peaceful protest involved occupying seats at segregated lunch counters
sit-ins
This doctrine was established in Plessy v. Ferguson and upheld segregation for decades
separate but equal
This 1957 event in Arkansas involved federal troops escorting nine black students to integrate Central High School
Little Rock Crisis
This event began in 1955 after Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up on a bus
The montgomery bus boycott
This leader of the Nation of Islam emphasized black self-reliance and nationalism
Malcolm X
This group rode interstate buses to challenge segregation in transportation
Freedom Riders
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction
Jim Crow laws
This civil rights leader co-founded the United Farm Workers and fought for labor rights and social justice for farmworkers
César Chávez
This 1963 event brought over 250,000 people to washington dc and featured MLK Jr I Have A Dream speech
March on washington
This woman's refusal to give up her bus seat sparked a major boycott in Montgomery
Rosa Parks
This economic tactic was used to pressure businesses that supported segregation
boycotts
This act outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
These peaceful protests, organized by college students, brought attention to segregation at public beaches
wade-ins
This was the 1964 campaign to register black voters in south
Freedom Summer
He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later became associated with the "Black Power" movement
Stokely Carmichael
This term refers to protests where African Americans marched in large numbers to demand civil rights
marches
This term describes African Americans being denied equal voting rights through poll taxes a literacy tests
disenfranchisement
This Supreme Court decision ruled that racial segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional
Morgan v. Virginia
This legislation passed in 1965 eliminated literacy tests and other barriers to voting
the voting rights act
This NAACP lawyer argued the Brown v. Board of Education case and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
These rides challenged the enforcement of Supreme Court decisions prohibiting segregation on buses
Freedom Rides
This event in Selma, Alabama, was pivotal in the fight for voting rights
Bloody Sunday
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