Vocabulary 1
refusing to buy a service or item
boycott
A fight for a CAUSE
Crusade
a lawyer that helped with Linda Brown's case
Thurgood Marshall
Used to make Black Americans second-class citizens.
Jim Crow Laws
How were Black American and White schools DIFFERENT?
vary
Protections promised to all citizens
Civil Rights
Mixing separate groups together
Integration
Refused to give up her seat to a white person
Rosa Parks
All people born in the U.S. were considered US citizens.
Civil Rights Act
Which President signed an act to end discrimination?
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Keeping one race of people separated from another race
Segregation
Martin Luther King was the leader of :
Montgomery Bus Boycott
became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.
Ruby Bridges
Boarded buses to draw attention that Black Americans were blocked from using bathrooms
Freedom Rides
the shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson
Treating someone differently because of the color of their skin
Discrimination
Which event led to the INTEGRATION of schools?
Little Rock Nine
Malcom X
Black Americans could not sit at the counter at diners and would not be served
Sit-ins
Why did thousands of children march on May 2, 1963?
to end segregation
Against the laws laid out in the U.S.
Unconstitutional
How did the DISCRIMINATE against Black Americans?
answers vary
James Earl Ray
Came up with a “Jail, no bail” plan
SNCC group
vary