Vocab
These were laws that allowed the segregation of African Americans as long as equal facilities were provided for them.
Separate-but-equal
What was the result of Brown v The Board of Education?
ruled segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
How did the Sit-In Movement start?
Four African American students sat at the lunch counter at a Woolworth in Glassboro, North Carolina.
Prejudice or discrimination towards someone because of their race (vocab)
Racism
Fees paid in order to vote. Eliminated in 1964 (vocab)
Poll Taxes
Congress passed this law that gave African Americans the right to vote.
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Which court case established the Seperate but equal doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
What did the SNCC do?
Helped desegregate public facilities and register African Americans to vote in rural areas
What event did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organize to help the passage of the Civil Rights of 1964?
March on Washington DC
What did the Nation of Islam want African Americans do?
To separate themselves from whites and form their own self governing communities.
Segregation by custom and tradition.
De Facto Segregation
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 do for African Americans?
Congress passed this law that gave African Americans the right to vote.
By 1961 How many cities were involved in the Sit-In Movement?
100
What did the Kerner Commission recommend?
Creation of 2 million jobs in the inner city
Creation of 6 million units of public housing
Fight against de facto segregation
What did African Americans face when attempting to vote?
African Americans were attacked, beaten and sometimes murdered while attempting to vote.
When a small group of senators take turns speaking and refuse to stop the debate and allow a bill to come to a vote.
Filibuster
What laws segregated buses, schools, trains, restaurants, swimming pools, parks, and other public facilities?
Jim Crow Laws
What did the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity do?
Stopped the federal bureaucracy from discriminating against African Americans when hiring and promoting people
African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle (vocab)
Black Power
What did the Black Panthers promote?
Black Power
Black Nationalism
Economic Self-Sufficiency for African Americans.
A form of protest first used by union workers in the 1930’s.
Sit-ins
How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott start?
Rosa Parks refused to get up from her seat in the front of the bus
What does SNCC stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
What did Malcolm X promote?
Black Nationalism
By the end of 1965 how many African Americans were registered to vote?
250,000