Important Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement
A South Carolina maid who refused to change seats on a bus. She was thrown off and arrested.
Sara Mae Flemming
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.
KKK
The ruling in this Supreme Court case made segregation in public schools illegal
What is Brown Vs. The Board of Education (1954)?
To stop buying or using
Boycott
This man was a famous preacher who, in his early life, advocated for peace between all races.
MLK
The first African American students to integrate schools.
Little Rock Nine
Court case ruled that separate but equal was constitutional.
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
During this protest, thousands of African Americans stopped riding buses.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Laws that discriminated against African Americans in public spaces and facilities such as restaurants, theaters, hotels, cinemas and public baths. Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people.
Jim Crow Laws
Who fought for farm workers rights and co-founded the National Farmworkers Association?
Delores Huertas
Workers at a grape farm in California walked out to protest poor pay and working conditions.
Delano Grape Boycott and Strike
What does the 19th Amendment say?
Gave many women the right to vote.
Unjust, unfair, unequal treatment of someone
Discrimination
This girl, at the age of 6, integrated a school by herself of only white students, walking through crowds of protesters every morning to get to class.
Ruby Bridges
A civil rights organization founded in 1909 who used political and legal action to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of people of color.
National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP)
Prohibits racial discrimination when voting
Civil Rights Act of 1965
This was a massive civil rights demonstration that was held on August 28, 1963. People marched and gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial and MLK delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
What is the definition of Integration?
Bringing together people who have been separate.
This person believed that African American needed an education before anything else, because useful skills learned in school would lead to better jobs. His goal was to help African Americans to overcome prejudice in this way.
Booker T. Washington
Both groups focused on nonviolent protests to fight racism and segregation.
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
What law ended segregation in all public places?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Organized passive protests where people sit peacefully and refuse to leave
Sit-Ins
What is a peaceful, calm way to bring about change?
Passive Resistance