Civil Rights People
The murder of this young man in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 was a major rallying point for the Civil Rights movement inspiring people like Rosa Parks
Who was Emmett Till?
this early SCOTUS case made segregation LEGAL by establishing "separate but equal"
Plessy V Ferguson
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Mongomery, AL bus
Rosa Parks
This Amendment made slavery illegal in the USA
What is the 13th Amendment
These types of laws were the first post-reconstruction passed to limit the rights of blacks and included setting curfews, making unemployment illegal, and restricting travel.
What were "black codes"
1st African American MLB Baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
Amendment that states voting cannot be denied based on race
15th Amendment
Sets of mainly southern laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
First African American to be admitted into Ole Miss 1962
James Meredith
He was the civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v Board of Education before the Supreme Court then went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice from 1968 and served until his retirement in 1991.
Who was Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Bus Boycott
This Civil Rights Act was passed to end all segregation-YEAR?
1964
This type of segregation was written as laws and most often used in the south
Dejure
He started his civil rights career as a radical muslim but softened his stance and was assassinated by the NOI
Malcom X
Supreme Court Case that made interracial marriages legal
Loving v Virginia
The attempt to register black Mississippians to vote in the summer of 1964 is referred to as
Freedom Summer
Civil Rights Act that made it illegal for states to interfere in voting rights--YEAR
1965
This type of segregation laws were implied/unwritten and most often used up north
defacto
Civil Rights leader best known for use of Civil Disobedience, I Have a Dream speech, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Selma marches, etc
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
Out of 9 SCOTUS Justices on the Loving v Virginia case -- how many voted to make interracial marriage a federally protected right?
What is 9?
The young people who rode integrated buses through the south and were often attacked or arrested became known as
Freedom Riders
Civil Rights Act (YEAR) that made housing discrimination illegal
1968
This letter from southern legislators said southern states should not integrate
Southern manifesto