Court and Laws
Dred Scott v Sandford
The case that declared slaves as property, not citizens even in free territory
March on Washington
8-28-1963. A march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial for fair voting and rights. Over 250,000 people attended and included mny speeches.
John Lewis
An important Civil Rights Activist known for his role in the Selma to Montgomery marches and advocacy for voting rights.
He also wrote the March Books.
16th Street baptist Church Bombing
A 1963 racially motivated bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four African American girls in Sunday School.
The Church was where Civil Rights Leaders met.
Redlining
When banks marked and labelled neighborhoods making it more difficult for Black neighborhoods to get loans and money.
Plessy V Ferguson
An 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the 'separate but equal' doctrine.
Selma to Montgomery
A series of marches in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest voting rights discrimination, leading to the Voting Rights Act. Spanned from was on 3-21/25-1965
MLK Jr
Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent leader and preacher in the Civil Rights Movement known for his nonviolent protests and the 'I Have a Dream' speech.
Freedom Riders Bus Bombing
When a Greyhound Bus used by Freedom Riders was bombed as a hate attack.
Literacy Tests
Tests administered to prospective voters to determine reading and writing skills, often used to disenfranchise African Americans.
Brown V BoE
Case that undermined Seperate But Equal and segregation in schools.
Greensboro Four and Sit In Movement
A series of nonviolent protests in 1960 where African American students sat at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until served.
Thurgood Marshall
The lawyer in the Brown V BoE case and became the first black justice on the supreme court.
Assassination of Malcolm X
Disenfranchisement
The systematic denial of the right to vote to certain groups, particularly African Americans in the South.
13th Amendment with year
Abolished Slavery. 1865
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955-1956 boycott on Montgomery Buses.
Began after Rosa Parks's arrest.
Emett Till
A 14-year-old African American boy whose lynching in 1955 became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
Assassination of MLK Jr
4-4-1968
When MLK Jr was assassinated after giving a speech at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights organization formed to give younger black leaders more of a voice in the civil rights movement.
14 & 15 amendments with years
15: Declared voting discrimination based on rac unconstitutional. 1870
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 to challenge non-enforcement of Supreme Court decisions.
Malcom X
An African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who advocated for Black Nationalism and was a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam.
What did Eisenhower do for the Little Rock Nine in response to the mobs?
Deployed Military personnel to protect the students while entering and travelling through the school.
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an African American civil rights organization founded by MLK Jr. to advance civil rights through nonviolent protest.