Vocab
The movement to stop slavery
Abolition
Was a successful conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
These laws were created in by Southern cities to prevent Black Americans from buying property, getting jobs, or moving freely in public spaces
Black Codes
Millions of ensalved Africans were forcibly transported to North America through a trade deal with America, Europe, and Africa
Atlantic Slave Trade/Middle Passage
Became the face of the Civil Rights Movement and would lead protests
MLK Jr
Separating people by race
Segregation
People who wanted to end the Atlantic Slave trade and free all the enslaved people
Abolitionist or Abolitionism
Made it illegal to help or hide a run away slave & have a financial reward to anyone who catches and returns a runaway slave
Fugitive Slave Act
how did the Government justify Jim Crow Laws, what did they call these laws?
“Separate but Equal”
The youngest person to be sentenced to the electric chair at 14 years old, for a crime he did not commit
George Stinney
Being treated unfairly based on your race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc.
Discrimination
Lead the only effective slave rebellion and was hung for doing it
These laws were passed by the government and enforced segregation and discrimination
Jim Crow Laws
This Supreme Court case was named after 7-year-old Linda Brown & ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
A white man who was 1/4 Black American from his great grandmother and tried to fight his 14th amendment right in the Supreme Court but lost.
To refuse to use something or to stop using a service as a way to protest (like buses)
Boycott
Passed the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Abolished slavery completely in the U.S.
13th Amendment
Nine black teenagers that integrated into an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas
The Little Rock Nine
14 year old from Chicago that was kidnapped, beat, shot, and thrown in the Tallahatchee River for being accused of whistling at a white woman
Emmett Till
Bringing different groups of people together
Intergration
A lawyer for the NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
14th Amendment
A boycott that lasted a year, when the black community in Montgomery, Alabama, stopped using the buses & resulted in the Supreme Court ruling against racial segregation in public transportation
Montgomery Bus Boycott
These two women refused to move to the back of the bus or give up their seat to a white passenger & were arrested
Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin