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A leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He focused on nonviolent protest, inspired groups like SNCC, and formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The full name of NAACP.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This movement lasted over one year and was inspired by an African American woman refusing to give up her seat. It resulted in the desgregation of public transportation throughout the country.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
1896 Supreme Court case which established the "separate but equal" principle and legalized segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Three methods of civil disobedience (noviolent protest) used by MLK and SNCC
What is sit-in, boycott, march, etc.
Woman whose protest sparked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who is Rosa Parks?
The first group of African American students to attend Central High in Little Rock, AS.
This nonviolent protest was met with extreme violence when they arrived in segregated bus stations in Alabama. The movement was started by CORE.
What are the Freedom Rides?
The 1954 Supreme Court case which ruled that the idea of "separate but equal" and segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS?
The profession (paid job) of Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is Baptist minister?
A young African American student whose case led to the desegregation of public schools
Linda Brown
This was a peaceful means of demonstration used by the SNCC at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, NC.
What is a sit-in?
An event organized in August 1963 by MLK that drew a crowd of more than 200,000 people, showing overwhelming support for the Civil Rights Movement
What is the March on Washington?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Police Commissioner who notoriously allowed KKK members to beat Freedom Riders and ordered the use of high-pressure water hoses to be used against Civil Rights protestors during their march
Eugene "Bull" Connor
The youngest man (and the first Catholic) ever elected president.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
A group (mostly students) organized to promote civil rights for African Americans through nonviolent protests
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
November 22, 1963 - death of a civil rights leader.
What is the assassination of President Kennedy?
A law was passed by Congress, in part as a response to the "Freedom Summer," during which civil rights volunteers (mostly college students) journeyed to the South to help African Americans register to vote
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Televised scenes of violence from city officials toward young protestors in this southern city shocked the rest of the nation and increased support for the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Birmingham, AL?
Argured that African Americans should work for social and political independence using "any means necessary," even violence.
Who is Malcom X?
A group who rejected integration and called for African American independence.
What is Black Power?
An act passed by Congress in 1964 which outlawed segregation in public places and banned discrimination in the workplace.
President Johnson's legislative program which called for domestic reforms and civil rights laws.
What is the Great Society?
President Kennedy's set of proposals to increase minimum wage, cut taxes, increase spending for the space program, and begin new programs to help the poor and unemployed
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