Civil Rights People
Her family sued after she was not allowed to attend the all-white school in her neighborhood.
Who is Linda Brown?
The "separate but equal" case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Name for when groups are forced to separate.
What is segregation?
What is the Nation of Islam?
This Amendment made slavery illegal in the USA
What is the 13th Amendment
Killed in Dallas before the end of his first term.
JFK
She refused to give up her seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Separate is inherently unequal according to this cases's decision.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
What is it called to be brought together?
What is integration / desegregation?
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
Killed in Memphis by a white assassin.
MLK
He had a dream...in Washington.
Who is Dr. Rev. MLK, Jr.?
NAACP lawyer, argued Brown v Board of Education, went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Group from Oakland, California that formed to provide armed protection for blacks during civil rights rallies.
What were the Black Panthers?
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
Killed by former colleagues at the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
Demanded civil rights...by any means necessary.
Who is Malcom X?
Supreme Court Case that made interracial marriages legal
What is Loving v Virginia?
Phrase used by Malcolm X to inspire racial pride among followers.
What is "Black is beautiful"?
"Black power!"
The 15th Amendment didn't consider these other ways to keep Black men from voting.
poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses
Signer of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
President LBJ
Attorney General, NY Senator, Democratic nominee for president, presidential brother
RFK
Found inspiration for peace from Gandhi & Henry David Throeau
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
Special name for a 9-0 ruling by the Court
What is unanimous?
Promoted by Ghandi, King and others--The belief that it can be justified to break unfair laws is known as "Civil ________"
What is "disobedience"?
People who rode integrated buses through the South to test the federal response to segregation.
Freedom Riders
Action credited with persuading lawmakers to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964
March on Washington
Protesters on this march took a beating from Alabama police after crossing a bridge.
March from Selma to Mongomery.