4rh Flashcards
Rosa parks
She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the Alabama bus boycott — 1955
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa parks was on the.p Montgomery bus boycott when she was arrested and refused to give up her seat.
Sit - in
Black students inside wool worth and stayed until it closed because They were not served. The next day a group of a dozen more black students arrived again and did the same.
Martin Luther king Jr.
He made civil rights movement a success
John F. Kennedy
He became youngest president elected - 1960
Freedom rides
Black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the south 1960
March on Washington
one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African American
SNCC
one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker 1960.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ran with John F. Kennedy, and became president after Kennedy was assassinated.
Civil rights act 1964
federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment.
Voting rights act of 1965
A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people
Great society
a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
Black power
movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
Malcolm X
An African American political leader of the twentieth century. A prominent Black Muslim, Malcolm X explained the group viewpoint in a book written by Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm XHe was assassinated in 1965
DIA
To make people aware of challenges facing people with disabilities
ERA
Would outlaw all discrimination based on sex
NOW
To fight for equal educational and career opportunities for woman
AIM
Found in 1968 to fight for native Americans rights