civil Flashcards
separation of people by race
Segregation
people of different races, combining together
Integration
People refusing to buy or use certain stuff
Boycott
not obeying the law that people think is not right
Civil disobedience
look down on a person or treat them differently
discriminate
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
He was a lawyer, who argued about brown V board of education before the Supreme Court did
Thurgood, Marshall
Did away with Pleesy V Ferguson
A.k.a. separate, but equal because it showed it was not better for children to learn separated by race (integrated public schools)
Brown V board of education
Some schools integrated quickly, but others resisted
Integrating schools
Central high school
Confrontation in Little Rock
The first 9 AF AM students were known as
Little rock nine
Who called the national guard to block the doors at the confrontation in Little Rock
The AR gov
Who called the one01 airborne to guard the students a.k.a. little rock nine
President Eisenhower
Which school later fully integrated after the little rock nine
Central high school
she tried to enter the school while soldiers of the National Guard, blocked her from entering and left with tears in her eyes and couldn’t stop crying
Elizabeth Eckford