Vocabulary
Policy or attitude that denies equal rights and treatment to certain groups of people.
What is discrimination?
Fifteen year old black schoolgirl who refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman and was arrested. Her case was not taken up by Montgomery black leaders due to the fact that she was an unmarried minor and pregnant.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This amendment was passed in 1868, which prohibited states from denying people their rights and due process. It calls for all people to have "equal protection of the laws."
What is the 14th Amendment?
The term given for the peaceful protests during the Civil Rights Era.
What is Civil Disobedience?
Basic freedoms guaranteed to citizens by the Constitution.
What are Civil Rights?
To separate people on the basis of race, class, or ethnicity, or other differences.
What is segregation?
Sat down for an end to segregation by refusing to give up her seat on the bus?
Who is Rosa Parks?
This amendment gave all citizens the right to vote. It prohibits the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
People who were black and white rode the bus together into the deep south.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
Legislation passed by southern states in the late 1800s and early 1900s to force the segregation of races.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
An organization formed to protect the rights of African Americans. The mission was to ensure the political, educational, social and economic quality of rights of all people and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Dr. Martin Luther King studied his teachings and modeled his ideas of peaceful protest.
Who is Mahatma Ghandi?
In this case, a slave was unable to sue for his freedom because he was not seen as an American citizen. The court said that Congress did not have the right to prevent citizens from carrying their slaves, or property, into free territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The name of the protest in Alabama where people did not ride public transportation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This act gave African American Men the right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
An assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy.
What is prejudice?
The president who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The Court believed that the idea of "separate but equal" facilities was not a denial of equal protection under the law.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Sitting at an appropriate place and refusing to move. For example, sitting at an "All White" lunch counter.
What is a sit-in?
Outlawed major forms of discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group at the expense of a majority group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination.
What is Affirmative Action?
A secret society founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee by a group of former Confederate soldiers; its first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate Lieutenant General who was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The court stated, "Seperate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
During the protests, the police department, led by Eugene "Bull" Connor, used high-pressure water jets and police dogs to control protesters, including children.
What is the Birmingham campaign?
Railroads were required to provide ______ accomodation. This concept was overturned during Brown v. Board of Education.
What is "Seperate but Equal"?