Chapter 1 - The Civil Rights Movement Flashcards
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Who went on to be a Supreme Court justice
Thurgood Marshall
In the early 1950s five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together under the title of
Brown v. Board of Education
It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High School
Little Rock nine
Refused to give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks
Thousands of black people stopped riding the buses
Montgomery bus boycott
A young Baptist Minister. Leader of MIA
Martin Luther King Jr.
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave
Sit-in
To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the student protest formed the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Became the youngest person to be elected to president
John F. Kennedy
To accomplish this,CORE organized a series of protests called the. White and black bus riders rode on the same bus.
Freedom Rides
A massive demonstration for Civil rights
March on Washington
Vice President was quickly sworn in as president
Lyndon B. Johnson
The act banned segregation in public places. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin
Civil rights act of 1964
Johnson signed into law in August. This law gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans’ voting rights
Voting rights act of 1965
Program of domestic reforms that he called the
Great Society
Movement which called for African Americans independence
Black Power
Helped inspire the Black power movement
Malcom X
Was one of man Hispanic Americans who worked to improve conditions .
Cesar Chavez
This union was committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farmworkers—those who move seasonally from farm to farm
United Farm Workers
Author for the feminine mystique
Betty Friedan
To fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women
National Organization for Women
First African American to be elected to U.S. Congress
Shirley Chisholm
Would outlaw all discrimination based on sex
Equal rights amendment
A conservative, founded the group STOP ERA to prevent its ratification
Phyllis Schlafly
