Important Figures of the Civil Rights Movement
her actions against segregation led to the bus boycott in Montgomery
Who is Rosa Parks?
The March on Washington, in 1963, was to pressure Congress to pass this president's Civil Rights Bill
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Peaceful protests often attempting to shame restaurant owners into integrating
What are sit ins?
This man was a famous preacher who, in his early life, advocated for peace between all races.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This person signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Term for the group of students that the federal government hesitated to help integrate into Central High School
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Movement started in Alabama where thousands of African Americans stopped riding buses to protest segregated public transport
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
He was a key figure in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, known for his passionate speeches and his role in the 1964 protests against university restrictions on political activities.
Who is Mario Savio?
This violent group opposed civil rights and tried to harm anyone they saw as "different." They had a secret society that began in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism.
What is the KKK?
An attorney for the NAACP who argued in the Brown v. Board of Education and later became the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Formed to patrol the police and pressure for the expansion of civil rights through armed struggle
What is the Black Panther Party?
President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program this, which included Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education
What is the Great Society?
the belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men
What is the feminism?
He fought for worker's rights and created an organization called the United Farm Workers of Americans to request pay and safe working conditions
Who is Cesar Chavez?
He was the head of the SNCC making a separatist philosophy of black power as the official objective of the organization
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
Supreme Court ruling in 1896 that established the idea that "separate but equal" is constitutional
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A series of marches from this city to Montgomery, Alabama, aimed to secure voting rights for African Americans, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
What is Selma?
Southern laws which separated the races after Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws