Civil Rights People/Vocab
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Mongomery, AL bus
Rosa Parks
Supreme Court case that declared "Separate is UNEQUAL" which led to school integration.
Brown V Board of Education (of Topeka, KS)
What is it called when we force people of different races to stay separate? Hint: One form of this was visibly very common in the Southern states of the U.S.
Racial Segregation
Young people who went to segregated lunch counters participated in what became known as
Sit-ins
What did President Eisenhower do to ensure that 9 African American students in Little Rock Arkansas could attend their previously segregated school?
Sent 1,000 National Guard Troops.
What caused a considerable amount of damage, death, and arrest across many major U.S. cities after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Riots
After the death of this individual the Civil Rights movement broke apart.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Sets of mainly souther laws that legalized racial segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Rosa Parks arrest led to a 1 year boycott of what form of public transportation
Bus Boycott
This type of segregation laws were implied/unwritten and most often used up north
defacto
Unfair treatment of a person or group based on gender, race, age, religion, or other differences -- is the definition of what word?
Discrimination
Organization that supported supreme court cases challenging segregation since 1909
NAACP
Integration
What did Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) encourage African Americans to do to end segregation?
Register to vote
What year did the first Civil Rights Act pass?
1957
Legal, social, and economic rights that guarantee freedom and equality for all citizens are called what?
Civil Rights Act that made it illegal for states to interfere in voting rights--YEAR
1965
List 3 different tactics black and white activists used to fight for Civil Rights?
Protests, marches, sit-ins, boycotts, demonstrations, and legal action.
The young people who rode integrated buses through the south and were often attacked or arrested became known as
Freedom Riders
What was the letter from southern legislators said southern states should not integrate called?
Southern manifesto
Civil Rights leader best known Leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott, for use of Civil Disobedience, I Have a Dream speech, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Selma marches, etc
Dr. Martin Luther King JR
What were the goals of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC?
To be served at restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, and segregated stores.
They also tried to register African Americans to vote
This individual was apart of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was a part of the voter education project to try and register African Americans to vote.
Robert Moses
This group organized in 1966 and advocated for revolution.
The Black Panthers.
this early Supreme Court case made segregation LEGAL by establishing "separate but equal"
Plessy V Ferguson