Civil Rights Flashcards
(26 cards)
Thurgood Marshall
A NAACP attorney who went on to become Supreme Court Justice who led battles against segregation
Brown V. Board of Education
A 7 year old black girl was made to go to a black school which was far away, and she lived near a white school.
Little Rock nine
The nine students that were allowed to go to Central High School ( a white school)
Rosa Parks
A woman who was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person on the bus
Montgomery bus boycott
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the busses do to the racial injustice on them. It was a protest
Martin Luther King Jr.
A black male who was the main leader in the civil rights movement, he lead the march on Washington with his “ I Have A Dream” speech.
Sit-in
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave
Coordinating committee
SNCC, or the student nonviolent coordinating committee
John F. Kennedy
The president in 1960 who got assassinated in 1963
Freedom Rides
When black and white bus riders traveled together in segregated busses through the south
March on Washington
A massive demonstration for civil rights
Lyndon B. Johnson
The president who took over when JFK got assassinated
Civil Rights act of 1964
The act banned segregation in public placed. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin.
Voting rights act of 1965
Gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans voting rights.
Great society
President Johnson’s program of domestic reforms
Black Power
A movement which called for African American independence.
Malcom X
A activist who helped inspire the Black Power movement, who was eventually assassinated.
Cesar Chavez
One of the many Hispanic Americans who fought for equal rights
United Farm Workers
A Union commited to the better pay and working conditions of migrant workers
Betty Friedan
A German author who described women’s dissatisfaction with there traditional roles in a boook
National organization for women
Organized to fought for equal education and career oppurtunities for women
Shirley Chisholm
First women elected into congress
Equal rights amendment
Outlawed discrimination based on sex
Phyllis Schlafly
An activist who founded the group STOP ERA
