People
Arrested on a bus in 1955
Rosa Parks
Where MLK delivered "I Have a Dream"
Washington DC
Activist who became popular with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and later was behind movements that directly led to legislation
MLK
1960 movement beginning in North Carolina when 4 students refused to leave a lunch counter
Sit-In Movement
Intentionally breaking a law without violence as a form of protest
Civil Disobedience
14 year old murdered in Mississippi in 1955
Emmett Till
Pro-segregation governor of Alabama
George Wallace
Banned literacy tests and gave the federal government more control of the registration process
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1961 movement when African Americans and white students rode together to segregated bus stations
MLK's Organization
SCLC
Voice behind the Black Power Movement
Stokely Carmichael
Year-long bus boycott was here
Montgomery
Banned segregation and hiring discrimination based on race or gender
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Little Rock Nine Incident:
-What did Arkansas governor do?
-What did Eisenhower do?
National Guard to stop them; US Army to make sure they could go
What changed previously indifferent people to major supporters of the Civil Rights Movement across the nation?
TV
First African American Supreme Court justice who previously argued in Brown v. Board as a lawyer
Thurgood Marshall
Where attack dogs and fire hoses were used on children protesters
Birmingham
Declared segregation unconstitutional in 1954
Brown v. The Board of Education
How did Malcolm X differ from MLK?
Goal of the Black Power Movement
African American Independence
Founded the Black Panther Party
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
This march led to the Voting Rights Act
Selma
LBJ act that gave healthcare to the elderly and the poor
Medicare and Medicaid
2 reasons for the declining of major cities like Detroit in the 1960s
Suburbanization; Riots; Fleeing Business
Explain African American overrepresentation in Vietnam
college students (white and wealthy) got out of the draft