Ch 16 Flashcards
(23 cards)
In 1955 an AA woman ____ refused to give up her seat for a _____. Her arrest marked a new era in the _____ movement.
- Rosa Parks
- white
- civil rights
The CORE group successfully integrated many ____ by using ____.
- restaurants
- sit ins
This decision angered some members of congress who signed the _____ which encouraged defiance of the _____
- southern manifest
- Supreme Court
Orval Faubas ordered the national guard to prevent _____ from entering high school. The president send ____ to little rock.
- 9 students
- troops
Congress passed the _____ which protected the rights of African Americans to ____ in ___
- 1st civil rights law
- vote
- 1957
- 1896
- established “separate but equal”
- segregation was legal if equal facilities were provided
Plessy vs ferguson
How did the arrest of rosa parks energize into the civil rights movement?
It reached the NAACP which challenged segregation. She gave people the courage to start fighting segregation, she brought light to the situation that needed change
NAACP chief council
Thurgood Marshall
Helped AA register to vote by chairing the notice department file lawsuits throughout the south
Robert Kennedy
- July 2nd 1964
- helped protect civil rights, but did not guarantee right to vote
- intended to protect the rights to vote
- president Johnson was able to get it passed because he knew how congress worked
Civil rights act
- 1965
- when registering to vote, attorney general could send in cereal examiners to register qualified voters (by passed local officials who often refused to register AA)
Voting rights act
How did the sit in movement begin
4 young freshman friends talked about segregation. They sat at a whites only lunch table
Helped organize the Mississippi freedom Democratic Party
Fannie Lou hammer
Urged NAACP to start helping rural southern AA
Robert-Moses
Leader of SNCC who believed in Black Power
Shockley carmiched
Organized black panthers
Huey Newton
Denied admission to her neighborhood school
Linda brown
_____ had advantage over ____ because he knew how congress worked
- Johnson
- Kennedy
King chose Selma because population was Marjority of AA
Bloody Sunday
The Kerner commission blamed ____ for most inner city problems. The commission recommended the creation of ____ and ___
- racism
- inner city
- construction
MLK started the _____ civil rights campaign in the north that focused on the problems faced But
Chicago movement
Major turning point - authorized the attorney general. He sent federal official to register voters
Voting rights act of 1865
- supreme court ruling unanious
- segregation in publish schools is unconstitutional in opposition - many states adopted pupil assignment laws which made requirements other than race that schools could use to prevent of AA attending white schools
- wording was VAGUE - allowed schools to stay segregated for many years.
Brown vs board of education
