Originated
often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs that arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s.
Jim Crow
was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Plessy V . Ferguson
March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma when state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma.
Bloody Sunday
1ST infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was the first black regiment to be organized in a northern state and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War.
The 1st Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry (Colored) was an
American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement.
MALCOLM X
deny of the rights which had been granted to blacks through the these three Amendments
13th, 14th, and 15th
American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Rosa Parks
group of black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957.
Little Rock Nine
African American Soldiers nickname who fought in western Indian wars, and only "colored" soldiers to see action in WWI.
Buffalo Soldiers
Teenager girl who refused to move to back of bus in Montgomery Alabama 9 months before Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
These words are from the song, "Jim Crow," as it appeared in sheet music written by this a struggling "actor"
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
Emmitt Till
was a protest march by thousands of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. They left school to march for civil rights. Police officers tried to stop them by using fire hoses and police dogs to attack the children.
Children's Crusade
group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
The Tuskegee Airmen
Father of Black Nationalism
MARTIN DELANEY
separate water fountains, waiting rooms, schools, hospitals, transportation.
Jim Crow Laws
as a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Brown V. Topeka
of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in this North Carolina town, that began on February 1, 1960.
Greensboro
African American pilots of began flying P-51 Mustangs to escort the heavy bombers during raids deep into enemy territory. The tails of their planes were painted red for identification purposes, earning them the enduring nickname
Red Tails
On February 12, 1909, a diverse group of people, whites, blacks and Jews founded the civil rights movement. Many founders were also part of the Niagra Movement.
NAACP
Jim Crow laws were most prominent in which region of the United States
South
Civil Rights leader-led Bus Boycott, a letter from Birmingham, and thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma,
Martin Luther King, Jr
on September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services killing four little girls at this Alabama church with a predominantly black congregation that also served as a meeting place for civil rights.
The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Birmingham Alabama
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order s, committing the government to integrating the segregated military.
Executive Order 9981
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medger Evers, 4 little Girls Birmingham, Emmitt Till
Murder during Civil Rights Movement