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?
The two presidents during the civil rights movement.
Who were John F Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson?
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? (Also Claudette Colvin)
Eliminated literacy tests to register to vote.
What is the Voting Rights act of 1965?
A project aimed at helping to register African American voters in the south.
What was the Voter Education Project?
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?
People who rode from the north to the deep south to test bus desegregation; met by multiple mobs.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
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?
Ended redlining and discrimination concerning renting or buying housing.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
Another civil rights group who pushed for nonviolent protests. Most well known for the Freedom Rides.
What was CORE?
An outbreak of violence after an arrest occurred in Los Angeles. People felt they were overpoliced.
What were the Watts Riots?
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?
Ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
She was a voting rights activist who helped register African Americans to vote. She was also a spokesperson for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Who was Fannie Lou Hammer?