acts and amendments
what is 24th Amendment
banned poll tax
emmit till
was brutally beaten and killed for whistling at a girl
core
congress of racial equality was civil rights goroup
thurgod marshal
Lawyer for the NAACP
George Wallace
alabama govener
Fair Housing Act
Banned discrimination in housing.
mongomery bus buycott
rosa parks refused to move from her seat so the black started a bus boycott by not taking the bus
mia
montgomery improvement asociation
James Meredith
sought to enroll in an all white college
MLK
civil rights leader
what was the civil Rights Act of 1965
Banned literacy tests, empowered federal government to over see voting
woolworth sit in
4 black colege students sat at an all white service counter and were refused service
sncc
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Malcolm X
Preached Black Nationalism, broke away from Islam and started his own organization
Stokely Carmichael
SNCC Leader and was the first to use the term black power
affirmative action
gave back a boost in work force and colleges. helped close the economic gap
freedom rides
Naacp
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
medger evans
Civil Rights Activist- collected evidence for the Emmitt Till trial and was later assasinated
fannie lou hamer
MFDP Leader
civil rights act of 1964
banned segregation in public places
little rock 9
9 black students were slowy intergrated into a high school in little rock higschool.
black nationalism
separate belief and identity of black community
ella baker
Helped establish SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
elizabeth eckford
apart of the people to get integrated into little rock. was the only to show up on the first day