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She prompted the Montgomery bus boycott when she refused to give up her seat on a bus. This was planned by her and the NAACP
Who is Rosa Parks?
This legislation was prompted after 13 African American students were refused admission to a white school in Topeka, kansas.
What is Brown V. Board?
Governor Orvaul Faubus and segregationists blocked these individuals from entering school. The national guard had to escort these students to attending school.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
CORE, the NAACP, SNCC, and SCLC among others organized this direct action. It included over 250,000 people. Many significant figures attended. One was Bob Dylan.
What is the March on Washington?
This group is primarily associated with Malcolm X.
WHat is the Nation of Islam?
Alongside Rosa Parks, she started the Montgomery bus boycott and was the president of the WPC.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
This was the first large-scale demonstration for the civil rights movement and lasted one year.
What is the Montgomery bus boycott?
These series of laws came after reconstruction in the south. Their purpose was to restrict, disadvantage, and humiliate black people.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This group started in Raleigh, North Carolina by students. It organized many sit-ins and demonstrations across the US.
What is the SNCC?
This is the most famous speech given by Malcolm X.
What is 'The Ballot or the Bullet'?
The murder of this individual was one of the actions that prompted the rise and unification of the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
This was a grassroots demonstration led by CORE that prompted similar demonstrations across the United States. It lasted 5 days.
What is the Greensboro sit-ins?
This man came up with the Jim Crow character through minstrel shows.
Who is Thomas D. Rice?
These two groups cite Martin Luther King Jr. as one of their founders
WHat is MIA and the SCLC?
This ideology and religion are supported by Malcolm X.
WHat is black naitonalism and Islam.
She spoke at the DNC and advocated for Mississippi democrats to give up their seats to members of MFDP.
WHo is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This direct action was supposed to last from Washington DC to New Orleans, but ended in Birmingham, ALabama.
What are the Freedom Rides?
the purpose of this direct action was increasing voter registration in Mississippi where literacy test, voter suppression, and violence and intimidation led to only 1% of the 400,000 eligible black voters were registered to vote
What is Freedom SUmmer?
This group founded in 1909 by many different members focused on advancing civil rights through supreme court cases.
What is the NAACP.
this is the title of MLK's manifesto that he wrote in the margins of a newspaper.
What is "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
This man organized the March on Washington.
WHo is Bayard Rustin?
Despite previous legislation, African American voting rights were still being restricted. This led to this direct action that prompted LBJ to address the nation and further pass the voting rights act of 1965.
What is the Selma to Montgomery March?
Who said this:"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Who is MLK?
The freedom Rides were conceived by this organization. One of its most well known members is Floyd McKissick.
What is CORE?
One of this ideology/movements biggest supporters was MLK.
What is Beloved Community?