People
NAACP's chief counsel
Thurgood Marshall
Violence against demonstrators, viewed by millions of people on TV, that prompted Kennedy to prepare a new civil rights bill
Birmingham, Alabama
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed the way to end segregation was through
non violent protest
Segregation In public schools was unconstitutional
Brown v board of Ed
minister whose vision and nonviolent methods helped the Civil rights movement transform American Society
MLK
Student barred from the neighborhood school
Linda Brown
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther Kr, Jr.
Memphis, Tennessee
The Southern Manifesto encourged
White Southerners to defy court rulings
The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 had established:
Seperate but Equal
Leader of the SNCC who believed in Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Fannie Lou Hammer
"March for freedom" in which state troopers and deputized citizens brutally attacked marchers in full view of TV
Selma, Alabama
Gandhi
State law schools had to admit qualified African American applicants even if parallel black law schools existed
Sweatt v Painter
First African American student to attend the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
SNCC's first chairperson, who later served as the mayor of Washington D.C
Marion Berry
First time since the Civil War that a state's armed forces were used to oppose the authority of the Federal Gov
Little Rock, Arkansas
Kerner commission blamed the majority of the inner-city problems on
white society and white racism
Segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional
Morgan v Virginia
Symbol of the Black Power movement
Malcolm X
One of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality
Sit-in at Woolworth's that sparked a new mass movement for civil rights
Greensboro, North Carolina
When first established, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to
End segregation and encourage african americans to register to vote
Exclusion of African Americans from juries violated their right to equal protection under the law
Norris v Alabama
Wrote Soul on Ice and one of the organizers of the Black Panthers
Eldridge Cleaver