Events
Boycott of busing to end bus segregation.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Laws that established segregation in the south.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Led SCLC and pushed for nonviolent protests; We celebrate him on a day in January.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Ruled that separate by nature was not equal, undid Plessy v. Ferguson.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
Term created by SNCC leader Stokley Carmichael.
What was the black power movement?
This march was to help push for a civil rights bill; MLK delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
What was the March on Washington?
Segregation by custom.
What is De Facto Segregation?
Refused to get off a bus in Montgomery.
Who was Rosa Parks?
Eliminated literacy tests to register to vote.
What is the Voting Rights act of 1965?
Bus trips staged by CORE to defy segregationist codes.
What were the Freedom Rides?
Children marched for civil rights and were blasted with water cannons.
What was the Birmingham "Children Crusade" Demonstration?
Segregation by law.
What is De Jure Segregation?
Civil rights leader who pushed for separate societies, changed after a journey to Mecca.
Who was Malcolm X?
Ended discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the United States
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
At what school was there major rioting over James Meredith’s enrollment.
What was the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)?
March toward Montgomery, occurred because of the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson (a person who was trying to help register people to vote).
What was the Selma March (or Bloody Sunday)?
A civil rights group in the south led by MLK; pushed for nonviolent protests.
What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Students who were chosen to integrate into Little Rock High School in Arkansas.
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
The 24th Amendment ended this practice.
What was the poll tax?
Statement signed by Southern congressmen in response to the Brown decision where they promised to resist desegregation.
What was the Southern Manifesto?
Started at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.
What was the sit-in movement?
A group of civil rights activists that armed communities, protected them against police, and provides services such as daycares.
What were the Black Panthers?
Was killed in the south at the beginning of the movement, which helped spark the entire movement.
Who was Emmett Till?
African American attorney who led a legal challenge against segregation.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Created a report that attempted to determine the causes of the 1967 riots.
What was the Kerner Commission?